What Da ....is going on!?

Rating: 1/10 (17 June 2020)

Middle class, armchair revolutionary Spike Lee has made a didactic, bombastic and ultimately uninvolving film that may be worse than Summer of Sam, Bamboozled and Chi-Raq. Do the Right Thing had a strong directorial vision, She's Gotta Have It was an enjoyable, accomplished, independent feature film and after a cliched start, Malcolm X took hold but, many of his subsequent films suggest that he's a one-trick pony and his talent falls short of his ambition. Da... is scattered, and discursive and seems less directed than thrown together. It's main characters, constantly in conflict with one other, become tiresome making the 2.5 hour running time feel punishing. Chaotic and unfocused, this film resembles the current BLM movement.