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Surprisingly incoherent and boring

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Not sure what is the point of the story. It is strange and complex. Germans are the top bad but few characters are all bad or all good. There are resistants, italian town with a lovely one, boy rescued, and plenty of murders, and one massacre. Some of it rings true but a lot of the story seems off, like a strange dream.

This is Spike Lee's worst movie. Don't waste your time.

If there is negativity to be found, we can always trust that Spike Lee will find it. Usually it's the negativity of racism...and of course, there's lots of that is this film. But Spike Lee tops himself in this film by finding the negativity of man's inhumanity to man during war. The film is a blood bath. And it's unnecessarily drawn out to be a very long blood bath -- 160 minutes. Has Spike Lee ever heard of editing? And the miracle? Geez...hundreds die in this film, mostly mowed down by evil Nazis (rather cliche), and then the miracle -- reserved for the last 3 minutes of the film -- is that one boy survived because of magic statue head that fell off a bridge being destroyed????? I've watched perhaps a dozen Spike Lee films over the years, and he rarely fails to disappoint. Oh yes, a gem here and there, but more disappointments (including in recent years at the box office) than successes.The sadder thing is that there's a pretty decent cast here. Derek Luke is, in my view, a much underrated actor. I try to catch him in most films he makes, and he never disappoints. Michael Ealy, whom I think is a very good actor, is getting a little too good at playing creeps (as he does here); he might want to rethink his silm strategy before he gets typecast. I'm really not that familiar with Laz Alonso, although I thought he did rather nicely here. Omar Benson Miller played his role here (as the Chocolate Giant) in a very touching manner. Valentina Cervi -- also a good performance.A bomb at the box office, a failure in the eyes of most critics. And rightfully so.

This film is about three hours too long.If you love blood, mayhem, gore, bullets, rifles, bombs, smoke, killing, rotten language, plot confusion, dreadful musical score, mismatched WWII uniforms, overacting, underacting, this one's for you.Some miracle.Tarantino must have loved this film. I found the film tedious and wayyy too long.Having just returned from Seravezza I was looking for landmarks, scenes that would express the quaint and lovely and warm city I saw. Believe it or not the Italians in and around Seravezza really like us Yanks. I hope the film did not run in the city square.What a waste of $$$. (Checkiung the IMDb score card it looks like the movie lost a bundle. Pity.)Don't miss this one if you can.