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It’s been awhile since we’ve had a narrative Spike Lee film worth talking about. There’s no question that there’s going to be a lot of talking about his latest film. In Chi-Raq, Lee takes the Greek comedy of Lysistrata and moves it to present day Englewood in Chicago, or Chi-Raq, as its natives call it, for the extreme amounts of violence that take place almost daily on its streets. The two biggest culprits are two gangs led respectively by Nick Cannon and Wesley Snipes. When a side-effect of one of their drive-bys is that a little girl is left for dead, the gang’s women, and the women of the entire area, band together in a pact to stay celibate until their men put down the guns. Oh, and did I mention that the bulk of the movie is in rhyme? Chris, Richard and JC review.
