Spike Lee rides again.

Rating: 1/10 (9 April 2006)

On a hot summer day in Brooklyn, New York, tempers are boiling over, the streets are snarled with traffic, and long-simmering resentments are coming to a boil. Sound familiar? You bet. Only now it's the West coast version and memories of the Rodney King riot have not subsided because we have these racist white police officers who...
Don't you all get the feeling of being manipulated, cursed-out, stereotyped to death? Don't you also get this film should have a tag-line that reads RIPPED FROM TODAY'S HEADLINES! If this movie is supposed to make us more tolerant of each other by getting us to understand about racism, then I think I'll just rent IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT or maybe GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER. This is certainly an improvement over Sandra Bullock, playing a rich white woman making it up to her Latina servant for years of abuse by uttering the following let's-be-friends drivel: "You're the only friend I've got left in the whole wide world!" Weep,weep,weep.