There's nothing like a Spike Lee joint

Rating: 8/10 (13 June 2020)

Only Spike movies are so oddly thorough. Always alive, visceral and human.
The only character left without much story here is Melvin. But otherwise, while other movies speed ahead, treating their characters like prop dolls, Spike Lee always devotes time to characters like the Bloods. Otherwise the historical cutaways would make his movies feel more like documentaries. I love how Spike always does right by his characters, almost excessive with the varieties of situations they end up in. And giving characters time to interact with the viewers, talking to the camera, makes Spike Lee the best kind of crazy.