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[DVD Review] Miracle at St. Anna

15 February 2009 8:11 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

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Plainly speaking: I'm not a fan of Miracle at St. Anna. While I believe that Spike Lee's self-described "untold story of courage and brotherhood" deserves to be told - I don't think Spike Lee should have been the one to tell it. He shouldn't have been let anywhere near it. If you trust the dialogue spoken by the characters within, James McBride's source material was racially polarized before Spike got anywhere near it. Allowing Spike Lee to emboss it even further with his own brand just makes the film all the more intolerable to watch - ironic really, considering how forcefully Lee and McBride hammered the film's message of intolerance into our skulls with each and every frame.

Spike Lee still hasn't learned that you don't win support or - as Lee was aiming for - regret by preaching at the audience. »

- Lex Walker

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Blu-Ray Review: Spike Lee’s ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ Disappoints in Every Way

11 February 2009 12:23 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Blu-Ray Rating: 1.0/5.0 Chicago – There is a great film to be made about the African-American experience during World War II. Spike Lee’s “Miracle at St. Anna” is not that film and the below average Blu-Ray of it should make this once highly-anticipated epic one of the more easily forgettable releases of the month.

Spike Lee is one of the more intriguing filmmakers alive. He’s missed the mark a few times but the man who made “Do the Right Thing,” “Malcolm X,” “Clockers,” “Get on the Bus,” “4 Little Girls,” “The Original Kings of Comedy,” “25th Hour,” “Inside Man,” and “When the Levees Broke” should be paid attention to every single time he gets in the director’s chair. Some of those are among the best films of the last twenty years, and even his previous failures felt like a director shooting for something unique and misfiring.

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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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DVD Review: Miracle at St. Anna

9 February 2009 11:38 PM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

The first time I tried to watch the DVD for director Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna I fell asleep. Was I tired? Could it have been because I had already seen it? Second attempt -- disc in, hit play, fell right to sleep; fell asleep so fast, actually, I can't even remember the last scene I watched before it happened. The third attempt proved to be the winner, that is to say I made it all the way through. Unfortunately everything was coming back to me. Not only does this movie not really have a point, it is so long and self-important watching it was like listening to a dull collegiate professor lecturing on the intricacies of the Dewey Decimal System. This film has to be one of 2008's biggest, most frustrating disappointments, and the DVD hammers that home with all the subtlety of a jackhammer. Based on »

- Sara Michelle Fetters

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"Now the Hell Will Start" for Spike Lee

3 February 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

Spike Lee has picked up rights to Brendan Koerner's book "Now the Hell Will Start" for this company 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks to produce. The nonfiction thriller recounts the story of an African-American soldier who offed his lieutenant and then took flight into the Burmese jungle.   Book focuses on the soldier's story of how the U.S. military considered African-Americans unfit for combat and sent off thousands of men to India in 1944 in order to build the the 500 mile-long Ledo Road that extended through mountains into China.   Lee also directed last year's war drama "Miracle at St. Anna" written by James McBride and starring Derek Luke, Michael Ealy and Laz alonzo.   »

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