Review of BlacKkKlansman (2018) by Axet — 29 Aug 2018

Spike Lee is at his best as a talented moviemaker delivering for the audience and at his worst as a preachy activist pandering with his tired obsessive skewed overkill agenda, and this no surprise veers heavily toward the latter.

Stylistically he lazily goes with his tendency toward self conscious post modern filmmaking here (random insert cuts from other media, actors staring straight into lens, etc.) even though he's quite capable of making the point by more difficult to do narrative craft, or at least he used to be capable of that.

Based on a true story that is pretty funny, damn crazy and yes timely again now; but instead of being ripe with its inherent suspense this shoddy effort is full of logic flaws, sloppy period colloquial errors, and cartoony didactic dialogue in a silly heavily re-manipulated plot to tie into perceptions of today's America that all rings anything but true and worse is boring.