Review of Miracle at St. Anna (2008) by Nick K — 20 Feb 2009

"World War II has its heroes and its miracles.".

Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

REVIEW.

This movie was a huge let down, a diversion from the trailers and, like others have commented, hard to sit through. First, the movie was sickeningly violent when it didn't need to be. I think we know the Nazi's were ruthless. We don't need to see their gruesomeness up close and in extended scenes. What's the point. Second, the moral issues broached in the movie were handled no deeper than a freshman level human relations course. Even the racial overtones of the movie, usually Spike's forte, were trite and predictable. Lastly, given the first two flaws, Spike Lee's directorial methods, which normally are provoking, seemed overly pretentious.

Avoid it like a plague.