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Information
- Year
- 2012
- Runtime
- 121 min.
- Director
- Spike Lee
- Genre
- Drama
- Rating *
- 5.0
- Votes *
- 1,174
- Checks
- 136
- Favs
- 3
- Dislikes
- 5
- Favs/checks
- 2.2% (1:45)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:2
Top comments
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Musanna
Found it very compelling largely due to Clarke Peters' fiery performance. 10 years 8 months ago -
criscoJovan
There never seems to be a dull second in a Spike Lee Joint.
Save for Clarke Peters, who proves an excellent performance, a large amount of the acting is distractingly forced. Red Hot Summer is so riddled with a lot of Spike Lee's usual, old school style: poetic, lyrical dialogue. And with such a distinctive sense for speech, the words don't roll off many of the actors' tongues very naturally unlike his earlier works. Nevertheless, you slowly grow comfortably warm to it all and his words shine through, his same bold, beautiful colors pushing his bold statements.
And his statements touch on something-- topics much more than the typical racial provocation; that is: man's morality, religion and faith, the modern information age, as well as race. Spike Lee confronts controversy, taking them head on, by the horns. With a lot of grit. And in the end, he leaves us repeating, carrying on with his same old tune: the always-relevant questioning, prodding words of "do the right thing."
"I ain't preachin',
I'm teachin'." 11 years 3 months ago