Black Lives Matter!!

Rating: 7/10 (13 June 2020)

Not the best Spike Lee joint ever, but a great movie, especially for the times we are living in.
This was the first movie I watched snice I noticed that Netflix put up their Black Lives Matter recommendations and Spike does not disappoint.
Very complex story about four black Vietnam vets coming back to Vietnam to find the lost body of the one that did not make it home 50 years ago, and the gold he's laid to rest with.
I feel like Spike is trying to make up for Miracle at St. Anna. A movie about black soldiers in World War 2. This was a much stronger portrait of African Americans fighting an American war.
Although watching this I see how Spike went wrong with Miracle at St. Anna. Da 5 Bloods can be a little clunky at times as if Spike did not have as much insight on the topic. I get that, as he is not a vet of any war (except the semi-Civil War he faces as a black man in America which allowed him to perfectly craft movies like Do the Right Thing and Blackkklansman). Sometimes the information just seem tossed at me like a documentary, which maybe is what he was going for, but it did clash with a scenes where he was laying down the knowledge with an emotional narrative.
I'll say this. It was a beautiful movie. Spike has an eye and this film shows that eye. You could tell he's getting into more technically film tactics to make it look like Vietnam during the 60s and 70s when he has to and Spike is always really good at making the film feel warm.
An amazing ensemble cast of actors helping to bring life to Spike's movies. It's hard to pick out just one cause literally everyone truly help to movie this tory along.
Overall, this was definetly a treat.