Better than I expected with great performances and a powerful story.

Rating: 8/10 (9 November 2018)

BlacKkKlansman (4 out of 5 stars).
BlacKKKlansman is a biographical drama film that is a crazy true story about a first African American detective in Colorado police department. Were he goes undercover to a KKK clan after having conversations with them over the phone. He enlists one of the detectives to go undercover for them to help expose their future attacks.
The plot tries to be fun and have a powerful story over real events on what happened. John David Washington playing Ron Stallworth, the first African American detective. Who was bored working in the records room in the department and his chief transferred him to being a detective. He sees an ad for a KKK clan on the newspaper and decides to call them wanting to be recruited. He sends another detective Flip (Adam Driver) to pretend to be Ron Stallworth when he is going undercover for the clan. It was fun seeing Adam Driver and John David Washington performance together as they practice to be the other person. And Driver being conflicted on joining the clan cause of his dislike how they treat people and he is apparently Jewish which he knows nothing about except for his family.
The performances were great with the two leads. Laura Harrier was great playing Patrice who falls for Ron. Topher Grace playing the arrogant David Duke who is a KKK leader.
Spike Lee did give a powerful direction. He tries to have some fun with the material while taking it very serious with delivering the true events. The films setting was in the 1970s and his direction tries to be that 1970s film. Sadly, I think the music score felt a little out of place at times. During dramatic car chase with the leads trying to stop a bomb the music during the movie felt indifferent. The music score could have been better. Even, the ending sequence with Ron and Patrice walking in the hallway with the hazing direction and music playing was similar to Spike Lee's previous films Inside Man. Could have been creative with the music choices.
Overall, Blackkklansman is a good film. The acting was great. The story was powerful. Even the movie referring back to 2017's August events in Charleston was mentioned.