Poignant Subject Matter Poorly Presented.

Rating: 7/10 (13 June 2020)

I eagerly anticipated viewing Da 5 Bloods, especially since Miracle at Saint Anna is my all-time favorite war movie and also my favorite Spike Lee Joint.
Da 5 Bloods is a tale of aging Nam vets (and a grown son) bickering among themselves and cheesily expressing dissatisfaction about race relations while on a return journey to Vietnam to retrieve the body of their fallen comrade and a cache of gold bars stashed there during the war.
The senior citizen vets acting as their younger selves in flashbacks, the inclusion of photos of historical Black persons (i.e., Aretha Franklin?), an MLK speech, and a Black Lives Matter meeting had me wondering if the 'shrooms were finally kicking in, before I remembered that I have never taken 'shrooms!
Da 5 Bloods comes across as if a bad war movie, combined with circa 1960's and contemporary 2020 civil rights takeaways, and almost every Vietnam war reference, were all spliced together for Black History Month.
I am a Black American military veteran in my 60's, a fan of war film and (most) Spike Lee movies, and I am still a fan of ALL of the Black main characters (despite their substandard performances here). And this is the only reason for my rating of 7.