Miracle at St. Anna
Set in 1944 Italy, the film tells the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII after one of them risks his life to save an Italian boy.
20 August 1970, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 December 1939, Berlin, Germany
14 November 1961, Shoreham, Long Island, New York, USA
1 February 1928, San Francisco, California, USA
22 May 1970, Rome, Lazio, Italy
12 February 1963, Stuttgart, Germany
August 30, 2009
Spike Lee has turned in an odd hybrid of a film--a 160 minute war epic combined with a crime thriller combined with a discourse on civil rights.
September 26, 2008
Overwrought, overproduced, overbusy and overlong, Miracle at St. Anna finally suffers from the worst filmmaking sin of all: the failure of trust, in the story and the audience.
November 10, 2008
Lee is a filmmaker who, through talent, accomplishment, and a constant working of the refs in the Hollywood system, has earned autonomy over his films. I'm all for artistic freedom, but here he could have used a bit of oversight.
June 11, 2014
Lee clearly has magical realism, fable, and historical enormity on the brain, and even though he stuffs the film with everything but the proverbial kitchen sink, his ultimate point is anyone's guess
September 29, 2008
Clocking in at 160 minutes, this interminable movie comes across like a rough cut. Perhaps Lee believed its length would give it gravitas. The opposite is true.
August 15, 2011
At 160 minutes, it definitely suffers from Oscar Bloat.
September 26, 2008
[Lee] resorts to many of the same hoary clichés and fantasy situations he so frequently condemns.
June 27, 2011
Miracle makes a bid for epic status, but Lee throws in more elements - including murder mystery and supernatural fantasy - than the narrative can stand. The two big battle scenes are impressively staged, but the action in between sprawls and stumbles.
September 26, 2008
Given the importance of that subject, the real mystery of Mr. Lee's movie is why it's so diffuse, dispirited, emotionally distanced and dramatically inert.
September 18, 2009
Takes too long to get to its one moving moment at the end.
May 17, 2016
There's barely anything in Miracle that comes across as genuine.
November 07, 2008
It's impressive that a filmmaker of Lee's distinction is willing to continue to push boundaries.
