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  francis79@ wrote:
  I'm giving it an 8. Fortunately the first 95% of the movie was a well told story. Good realistic war 'effects'too. The movie actually exceeded my expectations of it... until the last 10 minutes. I won't give away details, but hardly it's a real mystery movie as it was trumped up to be -it is however full of gripping intrigue throughout. Cinematic camera shooting was great and the bulk of the story had a nicely paced peculiar plot about it which held all the audience's attention. Battle scenes are standard fare -well done but done before. The time of nearly 3 hours actually went by fast. But like I said, the last 5% of the movie anti-climaxed -like the last Star Wars episode ending fizzled out the whole series without any 'WoW' factor it sorely needed to match the rest of the story. Be forewarned, there is some grim reality depicted in the movie regarding civilians as 'casualties of war'. Hopefully the review moderators here let me go on a bit here about the context of the movie -as Spike Lee tried to evoke through his storyline. Unfortunately one reviewer a few posts back entirely missed the principle aspect of the movie. The reviewer claims there's a racial gripe being once again overly revisited, and he brings it down to simply Spike Lee trying to make whites feel guilty about past racism. Here's what the reviewer missed entirely in his short sightedness. I myself studied the episode of segregated black units in the US military in the World Wars. What the movie accurately showed was that these black units serving abroad were astounded by how kindly White European locals treated them in England, France -AND EVEN Germany during post-War occupation! There was no segregation in dancehalls, restaurants, washrooms -they were treated as equals... and this angered the more racist white soldiers in the US army when they saw such integration. Spike uses some stunning racist accounts from black vets that I've read about regarding vulgar segregated treatment in the US South and incorporates them into his story very well. Also- an important point to make is that many of the mandatory white officers of the black units got along very well with their unit's soldiers. However, the unit shown in the movie -the 92nd 'Buffalo' (Black) Division suffered horribly with almost entirely having very prejudiced officers that particularly hated their soldiers. The contrasts of treatments that these proud soldiers confronted is well done in the movie. Too bad about the movie's flakey ending though.
(8/10)
 
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