Expecting much!

Rating: 5/10 (28 June 2020)

I don't know what happened to Spike Lee here. Let me begin with the good things. I like the way the screen is framed, the format changes from small screen to tell you things about the past and wide-screen to tell you things about the present and then full screen to focus just on the present. The story focuses on how black people have suffered over the years with racism and discrimination, the movie teaches you with relevant historical characters that have fought for the rights of people.
Now, the bad things. What's going on with the edition? I can't believe that an acknowledged director like Spike Lee has very basic problems of it. Sequences that have no connection at all, one minute all the characters are fighting to try to tie the hands of three "intruders", a lot of tension, and one minute later everybody is walking including the "intruders" without tied hands, what was the point of that tension. Another problem, long sequences of dialog or monologs that lead to... nowhere. The music score: terrible! drama sequences, action sequences and the music made it feel the same, as if you were watching... Believe ir or not... a Marvel movie. Nonsense arguments in different points of the movie that makes the movie very long and tedious. Finally, the movie is full of the typical cliches that long before they happen you they will happen, and guess what... They happen!