Story Deserves Better

Rating: 5/10 (24 January 2019)

I know it's a true story. How true? It's really nuts that this was how cops operated back in 197???. Bizarre. I'm a tree-hugging liberal and really wanted to like this movie but I have to say that I didn't. Got worn down by the polemicist in Spike Lee. As a screenwriter, I can't get a job, but I worked for years honing my skills. In this movie, you can see the hands of the writer and director imposing their views on everything and everyone. Didactic and much too "on the nose." The sound mix is so uneven. Music is much louder than conversation. Had to constantly adjust the sound level on my DVD.
This story could have been so much better with a more organic script and a lighter touch on the directing. It seemed ridiculous that our hero would dates a woman many times and not only does sex not happen, they don't even think about it. Never comes up.