"A dollop of Saving Private Ryan, a dash of Letters from Iwo Jima, and a sprinkle of Italian neorealism characterize the style and sentiment of Miracle at St. Anna." - Jay Antani

As another example of Lee settling scores, it ruins its own premise by attempting to out-do Saving Private Ryan.

Lixo! direção medíocre, fotografia amadora, edição escrota, roteiro risível, atuações dignas de pena, trilha sonora irritante. Enfim, absolutamente NADA funciona nesse que é um dos piores filmes que já vi. Spike Lee deveria ser proibido de filmar qualquer coisa até o resto da vida.

Um, I still never got my answer as to why he killed the man in the bank, but ok.... An alright WW2 movie, but the comedy was largely awkward and out of place, and the more modern beginning was unnecessary. The end was OK, if a little far fetched. It tries to be so much more than it is, and for that it fails.

MOST CONVOLUTED, CONFUSING CLUSTERFUCK WAR MOVIE EVER

Spike Lee reveals his limitations in full force with this absurd "war" film with little plot and less story. Lee tries to make some statement on racial relations in the 40s, but instead just shows aimless stares at the camera and unnecessary dialogue scattered through an already overlong movie. Making it past the first fifteen minutes will be struggle enough, but making the whole 150 minutes is nigh impossible.

I almost liked it. Hated the ending. [Entry 7 Birthday CD Movie Crawl 02.24.2009]

A lot to say...and the message was garbled

The film ventures into the quintessence of race and racism, but its B-movie heavy-handedness (with its main symbols and the atrocious ending) ultimately acts to kick the legs out from under a very solid film.

Decent concept, but it was long and poorly executed.

Painfully long and lacking any coherent message. I understand what Spike Lee wanted to do, but it's clear that he never got a grasp on how to make it happen.

Plays out marvelously throughout it's 2 hour, 40 minute run time. Never even comes close to draging. It's such a beautiful film and the ending nearly brought me to tears. This is how you make a classic epic. Grade: A Plus

Director Spike Lee ventures out of New York this time around and does his huge war epic that surprisingly enough succeeds due to its well plotted story and visuals and a good strong young cast. Glad to see Spike do something different for a change as I was tiring to some of his last few films. I don't believe all the negativity surrounding this film as I see more good than bad in this story.

Spike Lee's masterpiece to date.

The war scenes were pretty ridiculous and unrealistic mostly, but it wasn't very offensive. The supernatural aspects didn't fit in all that well, especially considering it's a Spike Lee movie; it was pretty contrived. Mostly I liked seeing Valentina Cervi because she's gorgeous. The actors had a fair amount of chemistry but I lost track of who was who sometimes. Not to be racist, I really did. Overall I felt like St Anna was a black man's attempt at making a white movie, take that as you will.

White soldiers do like this, black soldiers do like THIS! Okay, it's watchable just because of the exotic European locales, action, violence, dastardly Nazis, and tits, but it's an incoherent mess and the racial message has all the subtlety of a battleaxe.

Good Movie

Lee's corrective for the dearth of black faces in various World War II films over the years, St. Anna is well-intentioned and dramatically languid. If anything, Lee proves that stodgy, cliched, by-the-numbers war pictures transcend race. Scene to scene, Lee demonstrates that he is as skilled as anyone and building the frame, constructing the image. None of it adds up. The film has no drive whatsoever.

Very good, powerful film (almost 3 hours long though). It's kind of boring near the middle, but the good parts (are great) and definitley save the film.