BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman is an understated, feel good movie with some hints of blaxploitation and is sharply critical of Donald Trump. Racism, the black power movement and the KKK are dealt with here, meaning that the film will not be everyone’s cup of tea. But it’s clever, with Spike’s typical light and precise direction, and can score John David Washington some roles that would make him a new African- American star on a level with Denzel Washington. P.S.: Paul Walter Hauser (the fat little “secret agent” from I, Tonya) is an incredible fit for these ultra-redneck characters. [Cannes] (17/05/2018)

Spike Lee chose an interesting, absurd and almost unbelievable story, which he skilfully and cleverly adapted into a brilliant satirical comedy. His casting choice is also totally accurate and there’s magic between the actors, which, for the viewer, is pure delight. All that is wrapped into a near-Tarantino style. Then, just when you’re thinking how amazing a film you’re watching, Spike Lee throws in a straight superfluous documentary-like epilogue which differs in atmosphere from the rest. It’s like the director decided to make his opinions clear at all cost, being so explicit even the simple-minded can get the message. Fortunately, despite this last-minute blunder, the general feeling remains positive, and I’d say it’s definitely a quality film worth watching. [KVIFF 2018] (01/07/2018)

Spike Lee made a decidedly interesting film about the first black cop and his infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan, which is both unprecedented and attractive stuff, but it lacked balls. John David Washington is unexpectedly good and if he becomes a star I won't be angry at all. Adam Driver surprised me as well and Jasper Pääkkönen was a proper sleazeball. The film is a bit too long for my taste and offers no eye candy sequences; it’s emotionally cold, there’s no action empty, and the humour passed me by, but still I wasn't bored and finished it with curiosity without any problems. But I am not the target audience.60% (06/11/2018)

Spike Lee is an extremist, and also a big asshole. BlacKkKlansman is a film with a humour so black that it could pick cotton in the fields of Birth of a Nation; it pushes political incorrectness to the limit and works very smartly with the development of the two lead characters, who first must pretend they are one, in order to really become one in the end. There are moments that are packed with ideas and satirical jokes, but also others when its formally artificial and lacking credibility, but Spike compensates that with the use of archive footage and explicit allusions at Trump. In any case, heavy-hitting quality that, thanks mainly to the dynamic narration and the amazing actors, never falls into a sterility that it obviously fears like the Devil fears the cross. 80% (07/11/2018)

Campaigner Spike Lee is this time (traditionally) a hindrance to filmmaker Spike Lee. And so a good film is clearly ruined by not being satisfied with the hints that are not said between the lines and the viewer's intelligence, but has (traditionally) a need to say everything on its mind and what timeless parallels it wants to outline. And so here and there the characters recite, here and there documentary shots from the present, etc. are incorporated here. However, which (this time) is clearly annoying, because in the core of the film it is all that way anyway. In addition, very nice in terms of keeping on top of things view and from filmmaking as well as acting point of view. (19/08/2018)