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Summer of Sam
Following the horror that people lives in during the summer of 1970 in America, where a serial killer named Son of Sam, who begins to make serial murders brutally, the thing that makes people fear and leads them to investigate in the case, in order to catch that killer and save the security of America.
27 February 1943, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
21 November 1977, USA
29 July 1950, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
September 26, 1967 in New York City, New York, USA
7 February 1971, White Plains, New York, USA
28 August 1930, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
April 09, 2005
Lee does capture the terror a serial killer can wreak upon the community, but his concentration on the weak characters hurts in the long run.
January 01, 2000
Summer of Sam scatters most of its force by straying far from the compelling, plenty-complex business at hand.
March 22, 2002
The disappointment with Summer of Sam is not that it's exploitative; it's just difficult to figure out what it's supposed to be about.
December 06, 2005
Whatever you think of Spike Lee, when he has the faith in his talent and material and is able to be political without the dogma, he's one of the best filmmakers to come out of America in the 1980's.
August 07, 2008
The film is sloppy and ill-formed, its tone lurching drunkenly from turgid soap opera to soft-core porn, descending at times to low camp.
September 23, 2008
This ultimately disappoints, but it is good to see Lee branch out into subjects which don't immediately lend themselves to his single-minded politicizing.
April 27, 2007
This is trashy exploitation at its clumsiest. Once more, a Spike Lee movie has been undone by the earnestness of being important.
May 26, 2006
I needed stronger and more balanced characters to really care what happened.
June 24, 2006
Trouble is, the overlong narrative, however entertaining from minute to minute, is a mess.
February 14, 2001
Lee is a powerful filmmaker who certainly knows how to have an impact on an audience, but those who survive his ministrations are likely to wonder if in this case the battle was worth the bruises.
September 23, 2008
Like most of Lee's work, this bites off more than it can chew, but the breadth and energy are impressive.
June 30, 2016
A deliberately overblown MEAN STREETS parody