A very good movie

I already saw this movie in the movie theater when it was released but, since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out again. First of all, I have always been a big fan of Spike Lee but, to be honest, it had been years since the guy made something really amazing. Fortunately, he made an impressive comeback with this movie though. Indeed, it worked on so many levels. It was a fun and entertaining police thriller, sometimes a hilarious satire, it also had a powerful message and it is so rare to find a movie managing to mix so many tones and doing it so well. The main character, very well played by John David Washington (yes, the son of Denzel Washington),  was also complex and interesting showing some genuine internal conflict between his loyalty to his black folks but also towards his colleagues and his work as a cop. Eventually, in my opinion, the main core was to show that racism in general and the Ku Klux Klan in particular are basically based on ignorance because, at the end of day, it is ridiculous to argue that the color of your skin should make you a better or a worse person. There was one scene that did bother me though and it was when they played a trick to arrest one of the racist cops. It came out of nowhere, it felt rather fake and it could have been easily removed since it didn't have any impact on the main story but, fortunately, it wasn't a big deal. I have to admit that the movie didn’t have such a huge impact the second time around. Eventually, it might be a movie that you can really appreciate only once mainly because the story is so bizarre. Indeed, as a result, you keep wonder what will happen next but it doesn’t work that way anymore when you know everything beforehand. Anyway, to conclude, it was still a really entertaining and powerful movie and it is definitely worth a look.