"Yeaaah, but ... "

Rating: 4/10 (5 June 2019)

How'd this happen?
I don't know how to *not* spoiler this -- rather than dance around the issue, inherent in the premise -- but, for that matter, what is it about this movie that isn't supposed to have a "charge" about it because it's social commentary?
Years after Toni Morrison's novels first appear, years further still after The Last Poets and Ishmael Reed, etc., this is apparently supposed to be an appropriate mode of discourse for dealing with "Black Lives Today."
I say this because, the movie's not that much fun. It deflates once you leave the Twilight Zone-esque stuff out and try to look at it as social commentary (implausible), and it also doesn't stand on it's own because it has to function with the "thriller" aspect or it's no go.
All early '90s cinema grappling with black, particularly inner-city-life existence -- good, bad, indifferent, in terms of successfully doing so, let alone reception -- has lead to THIS?
Why is this movie so great?
Part of it being "palatable" (but not without the quotes around the word) is why I feel myself balking at it.
"Can't I just sit here and watch it?"
The answer is apparently no.
I have to think, somehow, it's "important."
And that's why I can't "like" it.