A Spike Lee Soup

Rating: 6/10 (21 June 2020)

I expect more from Spike Lee. Multiple themes and genres overlapped. The main characters are (mostly) relatable, but the conclusion left me wondering what Lee had hoped I would have taken from the story. Certainly there was the point that America (White America) was horrible to black American soldiers, let alone Vietnam people who are, as always (although apparently not believed by enough people), just normal humans, like us. I would (unfairly) characterize that as the "Black People Suffering Racism from White America" theme. But there were other theme/genres that fought to be remembered. Vietnam War biopic. Adventure/Action guy movie. Bad father/Hurt son drama. Documentary on non-American NGO work to clean the mess America made. Boy-girl will-they-won't-they.
It was a soup of a Spike Lee Joint. Sometimes soup is what you need. But with a world-class chef, you'd hope the soup would have something that makes it memorable. This one... well, I wish it had less in it, so that it would have had more.