Thursday,
September 25, 2008
Spike Lee
The
ANNOTICO Report
Regardless of
my relentless criticism of Spike Lee
Although
Lee sets the film at the site of the Nazi Massacre of 560 Italian Civilians, that was one of 400 Massacres that took place
throughout
Inexcusable!!!!!!
Insufferable !!!!!!!
Movie Review: Miracle at St. Anna -- 2 out of 5
stars
Roger Moore
September 24, 2008
Poor
Spike Lee.
You just knew, the moment he lashed out at Clint Eastwood for leaving black
soldiers out of his two-part Iwo Jima epic, that he had really put his foot
in it.
And now here
The story spins off a real incident, an SS massacre of Italian civilians
in the latter stages of the Italian campaign. Miracle at St. Anna ties that
incident to a fictional one involving the real-life 92nd Infantry Division, the
only African-American unit (led by white officers) to see combat in
Italy.....
In 1944, four "Buffalo Soldiers" from the 92nd found themselves
behind German lines in the mountains of
The colorful townspeople, the heroic partisan resistance fighters, urbane Nazis
who read and quote poetry, incompetent and racist American officers -- Lee
and McBride have conjured up a rich tapestry of recycled war-movie tropes.
Characters pause to have sex, remember racist incidents back home, rail about
"the white man
A scene set in 1983 mocks the John Wayne hokum of The
Longest Day, which the postal clerk vet watches on TV. Lee falls into many
of that movie
Filler scenes and pointless characters -- John Leguizamo
is in
It
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