Not Spikes Best Work

Rating: 4/10 (13 June 2020)

I'm a longtime fan of Spike and we all know he has his own signature style of filmmaking, but I was let down by this almost Tarantino-esque flick. I expected alot more and the worst part was the casting. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, and Isiah Whitlock fan, but why Spike chose to include 50 year old flashbacks using the same 70-plus year old characters is beyond me. Chadwick Boseman plays a 20 something year old Vietnam War platoon leader of Da 5 Bloods, but Lindo and company are the same age the whole movie. It makes no sense and would it really have blown his budget to cast a few more young people to include in the flashbacks? Nobody with gray hair is running around the front lines of a war. And the whole treasure hunt was a cluster-F#@*!
I waited with anticipation for this film to drop being that my father is an army veteran of that era, although he luckily never had to go over there to fight. Wonderfully shot, but the story was just plain bad. I expect more from Spike! He should have taken a page outta the Hughes Brothers, "Dead Presidents." The best part was Marvin Gaye's music featured throughout...