Miracle at St. Anna

by Rolling Stone Movie Reviews September 26th, 2008 |

Movie Reviews


Touchstone Pictures' 'Miracle at St. Anna' Photo
Starring:
Omar Benson Miller, Michael Ealy, Derek Luke, Laz Alonso
Review:
Critics are raining down hard on Spike Lee’s first war epic. And
it’s not like I don’t have objections. Miracle at St. Anna
is too long, lazily constructed, and crammed with too many
characters and subplots for any director to develop fully outside
of an HBO miniseries. But Lee isn’t any director. He’s an
African-American maverick with a legit gripe against the white face
that Hollywood puts on war. The first scene in Miracle
shows us a black World War II veteran watching John Wayne on TV
lording it over the D-Day invasion in The Longest Day. “We
fought that war too,” says the vet. Point taken.
It’s no surprise that Lee decided to make a film of James
McBride’s well-received novel about the Buffalo Soldiers, black GIs
segregated from the regular Army, who served with the 92nd
Infantry…

Rating: 2 Stars

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