Lighthearted story about racism in the seventies, portraying the story of 2 cops who went undercover in a racist organisation. Good acting performances.

Rating: 7/10 (19 April 2019)

Generally speaking a lighthearted story about racism, with lots of tongue in cheek jokes and a few dark and cruel racist scenes as well. The story is based on real events about 2 cops, one white, one black, who went undercover in a racist organisation in the seventies. Did they succeed in bringing racists to justice by going undercover? That is the cliffhanger of this story.
Direction is ok, acting as well and the story is quite interesting because it was based on real events that happened in the seventies. Any bad? Well, not really, only 1 thing at the very end. What took me off guard is what happened at the end (last 10 minutes) of this movie. It hammered down a political correct message from politics from today by showing some explicit violent REAL LIFE news footage about race riots. Why does Spike Lee do that? His message at the end is superfluous in my opinion and only substracts from the powerful fictional story that has already just been told about racism in the seventies.
This weird choice to start mixing real life news footage from today in a fictional movie really is in bad taste in my opinion. Never seen it done before in this blunt way. Make a fictional movie OR make a documentary. Make a choice. Really downer ending in an otherwise decent picture about racism in the seventies.