With “Da 5 Bloods,” Spike Lee follows his long overdue Oscar win for “BlacKkKlansman” by revealing a side of the Vietnam story that’s seldom told. Through the Trojan horse of a treasure-hunt advent…
as the fallen hero they all look up to — can’t keep it from becoming the kind of generic pyrotechnic action fodder Hollywood churned out back in the ’90s, complete with booby traps and stock double crosses. But “Da 5 Bloods” is smarter than its Indiana Jones-style set-pieces.
Joined by Paul’s son David , the foursome set off for the jungle to the thundering horns of Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” a too-obvious reference to that most ambitious of Vietnam movies, “Apocalypse Now.
“We was the very first people who died for this red, white and blue,” Norman argues. “We been dying for this country from the very get, hoping one day they’d give us our rightful place.” Here, editor Adam Gough cuts to a portrait of Crispus Attucks, shot to death in the Boston Massacre, in an approach determined not to let the film’s historical details — deliberately overlooked in so many classrooms — get lost.
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