Badly written story on an important topic

Rating: 3/10 (28 June 2020)

A movie with so much potential, a story that really needed to be told.
But not executed well in this film. Way too many themes; father/dad relationships, lost father/daughter, the gold story line, trump/against trump, racism, greed, redemption and what not. This results in a messy, badly written and fragmented film with flat characters.
The art of film lays in showing, not telling. Way too much dialogue, not enough to see. Kill your darlings!
I hope another movie about black veterans in Vietnam will be made, by a director that will learn from the mistakes Spike Lee has made.