Four African American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
Delroy Lindo Jonathan Majors Clarke Peters Norm Lewis Isiah Whitlock Jr. Mélanie Thierry Paul Walter Hauser Jasper Pääkkönen Johnny Trí Nguyễn Lê Y Lan Nguyen Ngoc Lâm Sandy Huong Pham Jean Reno Chadwick Boseman Van Veronica Ngo Nguyen Anh Tuan Duc Luong Quoc Tuan Tran Minh Thuong Hoang Sang Thanh Van Nguyen Bao Ngoc Linh Huynh Le Cuong Nhu Thuc Hung Cuong Thuy Hong Nhu Le Ngoc Anh Show All…
Пять корешей, Da Five Bloods, Năm Chiến Hữu, 5 เลือดอหังการ
One of my (many) frustrations with Blackkklansman was Spike using real, brutal footage of a woman's murder to close out the film, as if the point couldn't be made without it, and he opens this one with that. Then sort of splices in shots of real, dead, mutilated bodies throughout the movie when you're not expecting them. :( I get what he’s going for, but fuck it is just… not good. Sorry, I’m just truly not interested in seeing it.
This movie is carried on Delroy Lindo's back. And on Jonathan Majors' very jacked arms. It's always a little eye-rolly when movies insist on deeply incorporating Trump and Trump imagery in their films (and I feel VERY weird about the…
I hope this makes sense: the colorful, psychedelic imagery in the poster wasn’t really in the film, but I still felt that. Ya know? Spike Lee is so good at giving you a physical reaction.
Felt like a shock to the system after weeks of lazy, passionless filmmaking. It is the story of two wars that never ended - Vietnam and civil rights - and it contains stunning work from Lindo, Majors, Blanchard, and Lee.
spike lee does The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as men-on-a-mission, hangout/heist picture through black history and vietnam only instead of being slowly corrupted by greed lee wrestles with how we are already corrupted and haunted by imperialism, whether we understand exactly how or why or the all-consuming depth of it or not. delroy lindo gives one of the most brutally sad, destructive performances in a lee joint (no small feat, especially considering his own in Crooklyn) playing a man whose seething rage, political contradictions and emotional complexities are as direct a counter-point to retroactively trying to "win" this conflict through cinema as there's ever been. nothing easy or fair or righteous about the application of violence or the allocation of resources as dictated from the top-down so if you manage to survive the senseless carnage on the ground you might as well take what you can and give to the cause.
last night my mom texted me "Delroy Lindo" at 10:30pm with nothing else and I have to say that I agree
There are not many films about black people's experience during the Vietnam war. Thank you, Spike Lee.
Spike Lee remakes Rambo: First Blood Part 2 but this time it's a good movie
What a colossal disappointment. How does one go from making Blackklansman, a movie that subtly uses issues and events of the past to comment on our current society, to making a movie that does the same thing except just shoves it down your throat the entire runtime.
Everything about this seems so rushed. It’s extremely ugly, it has the cinematography and color palette of a Hangover movie. Every dialogue scene is shot reverse shot until your brain melts. I felt nothing for the characters, because I barely knew anything about them despite the movie being two and a half hours long. It expects you to give a shit about the shoehorned love interest. The editing is messy. The production design…
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Da 5 Bloods is Spike Lee fully embracing his strengths as both an essayist and a pulp scavenger, finding form in adventure genre modes while taking to task a symbolic Vietnam space affected by American images, the threat of imperialism, and the dynamics of historical trauma. As much as this references Apocalypse Now (with a themed movie bar - the first of many acute details) and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Spike Lee paints an expansive, often imbalanced picture of tension between the oppressed and the oppressor, particularly under the lens of colonization. Shades of Sam Fuller too. The interplay between vivid memories of the immoral war and the ghostly agony of the present converge and clash in…
the kind of mess only a brilliant overly emotional person with a thousand ideas could make, and i love that about it. of course this is about the way the state weaponizes anger and trauma, the cruel irony of two oppressed groups forced to fight each other for something they don't benefit from, but the thing i thought the most about was how hard it is to move forward when there are so many landmines from the past blocking your way, it's impossible, they make it impossible, state violence is an infinite ripple effect. whatever this movie's faults (and i am certainly not the right person to analyze them), this is an essential perspective on this clusterfuck of a war,…
Vietnam vets. Pain. Love. Brotherhood. Emotions. And Delroy Lindo giving an amazing performance.
Through the first 45 minutes if this movie I was about to love the film. When the shit starts to hit the fan it just doesn't work for me. I don't really know why - a lot of uber-unrealistic events occur for multiple characters. Major events happen and within a minute everyone is over it. Nothing that occurs in the movie has a lasting effect on the characters or audience.
There was a great story to be told here about PTSD, racism, and lasting effects of War, while also being a treasure hunt movie of sorts.
The part of the movie I thought would be the climax comes right around the half way point, and isn't even made to be…
This will probably be controversial, but I thought Da 5 Bloods was an improvement on Mr. Lee's socio-cultural examinations and politically-minded dissections of race relations in Blackkklansman. While that last film from just a couple years ago was plenty fun and engaging, wrapped up in a bow of Black Power and a yearning for justice, I feel like Blackkklansman spent too much time feeling like a buddy movie with comedic shenanigans rather than going deeper into the drama of trying to stop racist powers at be.
But now, if we look at Da 5 Bloods, this is a Spike Lee Joint that journeys to the edge and doesn't look back. This is not only one of the best films I…
Christ, Spike Lee. What a wild card. This movie whiplashes so hard in quality. Most of it is pretty horribly written and paced - events just sort of seem to happen one after another, while the overarching story seems to lack a driving force. Then again, there are moments that will completely blow you over. I don't know what it is but the last scene between Delroy Lindo and Chadwick Boseman is fucking rapturous.
I thought this was so excellent. Wow, incredible story. Really cool directing by spike Lee. Absolutely amazing acting by Delroy Lindo and Chadwick Boseman. An original plot and a spot on take on the Vietnam War and the treatment of black Americans during the era. Intriguing relationships, adventure, action. And a whole lot of heart. This movie was not what I expected it to be, and I was blown away (no pun intended)
It takes a while for this movie to get going, especially considering it has a 2 and a half hour run time, but once it gets going it really gets going. Spike Lee takes a lot of risks and has a unique vision, and Delroy Lindo absolutely steals the show. Both of them deserve academy award nominations, if not the win in Lindo’s case. A fun movie that turns into a thrilling drama.
I would’ve loved to be on the crew producing this buddy adventure. Delroy shines, The Wire alums Isaiah and Clarke reunited, and Jonathan Majors is a great addition as the next generation of Blood. Paul Walter Hauser playing a non-imbecile for once. The adventure for gold was not what I was expecting and I loved the film even more for that. Excellent score and beautiful sets in the jungle-covered hills of Vietnam and Thailand.
Give Delroy Lindo and Spike Lee ALL the awards!
A roaring collage of digital, film, archive, and still photography, inhabited by a cast of big but nuanced and deeply flawed characters; an exciting, powerfully redemptive story, and a history lesson that many still need to learn.
In the admittedly very small amount of 2020 films I've seen so far, it's the best.
ainda não sei bem o que achar do filme, bem complexo. o Spike Lee usa a trama do filme como veículo do argumento que quer fazer, isso é claro, só acho que devia ter dosado mais o seu foco em cada um. primeiro dele que eu não curto tanto logo de cara, mas é muito forte.
o melhor é que tivemos a chance de ver a combinação Spike Lee e Chadwick Boseman!
This film tackles PTSD in a way that I have seen from few movies. It's so raw, sincere, and provocative. All the while we are given a tour de force performance from Delroy Lindo, as well as a highly emotional but fierce penultimate performance from Chadwick Boseman. I do hope Lindo receives at least some consideration from The Academy. I mean, I found myself comparing the anguish and suffering we saw from Lindo's character to that of Christopher Walken in "The Deer Hunter". Walken took home the gold statuette, so I won't be surprised if Lindo does the same.
Besides creating an accurate portrayal of PTSD, Spike Lee addressed the atrocities that took place during the Vietnam War by weaving…
A film it’s more layers than I could ever hope to parse out in one sitting. I was really caught off guard with this one. I had pictured a veteran buddy movie based on the intro and first few scenes. By the end the film is a nuanced commentary on war, race, American ideology, guilt and innocence, PTSD, Trump era politics... the list goes on. Delroy Lindo is absolutely unbelievable. He makes Paul one of the most complex and interesting characters I have ever seen in a film, never going too far and showing only in hints, at first, the madness within.
Not going to lie, I didn’t expect this to be as violent as it was and there were times I thought that the emotions fell a little flat (I won’t give spoilers, but after the landmines), but the writing more than makes up for the flaws.
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