An unholy mess of a film

Rating: 3/10 (19 June 2020)

Spike Lee proves he is the most overrated director. Intellectually a lightweight, his style has become lazier and more self-indulgent with age. He uses 70 year old actors, and the prostitute mother of one of their children is 62, but their child is no where near the 50 she would been. 1975 to 2020 is 45 years. Terrible mistake. And the device of using the old actors during the flashback scenes with a younger actor is a foolish device that stops the film every time it is employed. This isn't a film, so much as a polemic about race. I get it, and I agree, but who wants to be hit over the head with his ideology for 2.5 hours?