Shock, horror its about race in the US - lets give it a 10 out of 10.

Rating: 5/10 (2 September 2005)

What is it about US movies that deal with race that American's deem them to be so fantastic ? The same thing happened with Spike Lee's jungle fever. The US got over-excited about this "controversial movie". Spike Lee shows up in Cannes expecting to receive the Palm D'Or. The reaction in Europe ? Yawn. So it's about race. Black man, white woman, so what ? Don't get me wrong, this is a reasonably good movie. But 8.6 out of 10 ? Please. High art this is not. It's not at the level of The Godfather. It's the Pulp Fiction of race relations. I was most disappointed as I have previously relied on IMDb ratings before watching a movie. I shall have to qualify that now to exclude any US movie about race as clearly US ratings are completely skewed in that regard. What next, it'll probably get 8 Oscars or something. This overhyping makes a mockery of the States.