It's got striking colours/visuals, good music, and of course Denzel Washington being as charismatic and magnetic a screen presence as always, but otherwise I felt a bit distant from this.
There wasn't much about the story or characters that I got invested in, and at over two hours, the relaxed pacing and lack of a strong narrative became challenging.
There are redeeming qualities, like all Spike Lee movies I've seen (granted, I haven't seen his universally panned Oldboy remake), but if I were to rank all his films, this would probably be near the bottom, unfortunately.
There wasn't much about the story or characters that I got invested in, and at over two hours, the relaxed pacing and lack of a strong narrative became challenging.
There are redeeming qualities, like all Spike Lee movies I've seen (granted, I haven't seen his universally panned Oldboy remake), but if I were to rank all his films, this would probably be near the bottom, unfortunately.