Summer of Sam

With films like 'Inside Man' and the upcoming 'Selling Time', it appears as though Spike Lee is departing from his gritty streetwise films on racial prejudice, and into the pleasant commercial world of Hollywood. He stills touches upon the odd... Full review

This film was excellent. I saw it years ago and didn't remember much of the details, so I re-rented it and I found it to be completely wonderful. Based on the actual 1977 murder spree that terrorized New York City,... Full review

Spike Lee really screwed this one up. The story is intriguing and good. It has a nice, interesting premise. A tightly knit nieghborhood's reaction to the rampage of serial killer David 'Son of Sam' Berkowitz in the sweltering New York summer... Full review

Summer of Sam is a really boring, long, drug-induced hallucination of Spike Lee's. The acting was good, but anything from that, the movie is bad. John Leguizamo did good, but that is about it. This movie really does not deal with... Full review

I expected that this movie would delve into intersting facts about the murders but that was not the case. This movie was more like Saturday Night Fever or Boogie Nights rather than a thriller. The setting and the atmosphere of the... Full review

The story traces the painful dissolution of a relationship (Leguizamo & Sorvino), which occurs in NYC in 1977 while Son of Sam was on the loose. The film did not get much attention when it came out, which is sad because... Full review

I thought that this movie was not good at all. I was not impressed at all. Spike Lee should of given up his carrer early in the game. To me, all the character did was have sex. It was not good... Full review

Doing a movie about Son of Sam was a good idea but this movie came up way short in delivering. The the movie was about 2 hours and 20 minutes in length. With some more selective editing they could have shorten... Full review

At first it's pretty hard to see any connection with the over all story of the film and the case of Son Of Sam. There are flashes, where we see Sam doing his crimes. But then we see these people,... Full review

this could have been such a great film. Its all there. There are flashes of brillance. Like 25th hour, some marvalous sequences, and then the movie digresses into spikes perverted italian fantasy. The graphic sex scene undermine the movie. While party... Full review

Lee does a good job of showing the rising racial and ethnic tensions in the city brought on by heat, the Son of Sam and a power outage. There's even a line from a person who lives in a black neighborhood about how Lee doesn't like to come around those neighborhoods. ... Full Review

Taking place in the Bronx during the incident-filled summer of 1977, Sam brilliantly recreates a scary and pivotal season of American history. In a season not known for quality cinema, this Summer is unforgettable. ... Full Review

Not that it's a bad film, though. As bitchy as I sound here, I do want to emphasize that I still liked Summer of Sam to a decent degree. In the desperate search for the 44-caliber killer, a Mafia boss offers a bounty for the Son of Sam. ... Full Review

It's as if Lee just wants to emphasise that he's still the enfant terrible on the Hollywood block. His buddies are either dumb or dumber, with the exception of Ritchie (Adrien Brody) and Dionna (Mira Sorvino), who are at least vulnerable - but they are the victims in this story. ... Full Review

It's as if Lee wants to emphasise that he's still the enfant terrible on the Hollywood block. The focus of the story rests on the roguish and unfaithful Vinny (John Leguizamo) and his heartbroken wife, Dionna (Mira Sorvino). ... Full Review

Despite falling short of the assured style of GoodFellas and the easy charm of Boogie Nights (both of which it clearly aspires to), Summer Of Sam is still one of Spikes best joints in years. ... Full Article

It could have been anybody, any New Yorker. Any one of 10 million people living for the city. But in the sweltering summer of 1977, only David Berkowitz snapped completely. He killed almost a dozen people that summer, and while ... Full Article

In the summer of 1977, New York lost its mind. A mountain climber from Queens named George Willig scaled the World Trade Center. Terrorist bombs linked to Puerto Rican nationalists exploded at Manhattan office buildings and department stores. The temperature ... Full Article

Inside Man was certainly one of the best heist movies I have seen in a long time. If you have never seen the movie then yes, its a heist movie, if you have, then I dont know what the hell... ... Full Article

Like other Spike Lee movies, his Summer of Sam is being greeted with wildly mixed reviews. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun Times awards a "thumbs up" salute to it (and 31/2 stars), commenting: "Lee's best films thrum with a... ... Full Article