9/3/2023 0 Comments 25th hour full movie![]() ![]() Francis's apartment towers over Ground Zero, where workers are seen cleaning that desolate hellhole. In another clunky moment, Lee makes an incoherent attempt to tie in this story with the calamity of Sept. Yes, it's the mirror image and that gives license to almost anything, but still, it's a shock and a case of Lee's hamfisted, over-the-top approach. Up to that point, Monty has been anything but given to such outbursts. It's an obvious reprise of a similar sequence in Lee's "Do the Right Thing," in which blacks, Italians and Koreans all got to air their favorite ethnic slurs. This mirror image launches into a middle-finger tirade against every conceivable ethnicity in New York City. One such intrusion occurs when Monty walks into a restroom and finds himself confronted with a reflection with a mind (and mouth) of its own. ![]() He hates to leave a movie to its characters. It's a very talky (and shouty) movie, and Lee joins in the shouting part. Francis busts Monty about trading on people's misery - although we never get a glimmer as to why Monty got into this trade, how well he did, that whole history. Monty admits he made the wrong choices and agonizes about the hell he's about to face. Monty's dad is sorry he couldn't have steered his son to a better destiny. Over the course of the evening, everyone gets to sound off, confront someone, express regrets about their life, or expound their world-view. Doyle represents Monty's hope, his life, his self-esteem, his ability to love. Monty rescued the bloody animal and brought him back to life. Also figuring in the drama is Doyle, a big dog that Monty has rescued from a savage beating. There are two tag-alongs at various points in the evening: Monty's friend, Kostya (Tony Siragusa), and Mary (Anna Paquin), a student that Jacob is quietly obsessed about. On this long night in New York City, he spends quality time (if nightclubbing and drinking at the bar is that) with all the significant people in his life: his Irish firefighter-father (Brian Cox) his longtime buddies, high school teacher Jacob (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Wall Street trader Francis (Barry Pepper) and Monty's steadfast girlfriend Naturelle (Rosario Dawson). In the story, which David Benioff adapted from his novel, convicted drug dealer Monty Brogan (Edward Norton) is having his last night before he goes into the slammer for seven years. It's the usual undisciplined, overextended Spike symphony: more fun than it is any good. It's wildly pleasurable in some places, groan-inducing and heavy-handed in others. ![]() SPIKE LEE is always the best and worst thing about his movies. ![]()
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