Synopsis
Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
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Cast
- Delroy LindoPaul
- Jonathan MajorsDavid
- Clarke PetersOtis
- Norm LewisEddie
- Isiah Whitlock Jr.Melvin
- Mélanie ThierryHedy Bouvier
- Paul Walter HauserSimon
- Jasper PääkkönenSeppo Havelin
- Johnny NguyenVinh Tran
- Lê Y LanTiên Luu
Recommendations
- 100
The Guardian
It’s all so inventively bizarre that you could treat it simply as a black comedy, but in the final 15 minutes there is an amazing crescendo of emotion. - 100
RogerEbert.com
Lee has crafted an exciting, violent film that can be enjoyed as strictly that, but what elevates it to greatness is what it says and what it shows about the perception of Blackness, whether in heroic situations or human ones. - 100
Chicago Sun-Times
Director Lee and the team of writers have created an immersive, violent and sometimes shocking tapestry that plays out like “Deer Hunter” meets “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” with a steady undercurrent of subtle and not-so-subtle social and political commentary. - 100
New York Magazine (Vulture)
It is one of the greatest films Spike Lee has ever made. - 80
Los Angeles Times
The tonal shifts can be so abrupt as to induce whiplash, not to mention a kind of moral and narrative chaos, which seems to be very much to the movie’s point. The rich, tumultuous history of Black life over the past century could certainly find a worse cinematic analogue than this heady swirl of wry comedy, seductive music, ferocious argument and devastating carnage. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Even if Da 5 Bloods at times seems to be morphing into an entirely different movie, its playfulness, as much as its raw power, keeps you glued. - 80
Screen Daily
Lee is firing off rounds in all directions here. Some land, some distract, some feel like overkill. For cineastes, it’s a provocative redrawing of the canon; Coming Home or The Deerhunter, and even Stone’s so-called “definitive” work including Platoon now seem only part of the picture. - 75
IndieWire
A loose, caustic look at the Vietnam war through the prism of black experiences, Da 5 Bloods wrestles with the specter of the past through the lens of a very confusing present, and settles into a fascinated jumble as messy and complicated as the world surrounding its release.
