I thought this was the worst project out of all of Spike Lee's body of work. It takes you into the New York, Red Hook project, and follows a young boy, Flik, who's sent to New York from Atlanta, by his mother, to spend the summer with his "Holy Roller" grandfather. With long scenes of dialogue, this movie lacks action and conflict. Lee who wrote and directed this film, finally created real conflict within the story, in about the last 20 minutes of the movie, so I sat around waiting for it to get good, and as soon as it did, the movie ended which is why I rated it so poorly. The character development, and back story worked really well, but I think there was too much emphasis on setting up the conflict instead of showing and resolving. This movie really let me down in comparison to some of his other films.
Review of Red Hook Summer
