ternoon. Indeed, it’s most involving
when we’re simply hanging
out with its elderly heroes as they
loaf through the foliage, bickering
with one another and reminiscing
about times past. There’s a platonic
romance between these men of
the sort you find in the westerns of
Ford and Hawks, which makes it all
the more impactful when gold fever
leads to the inevitable fracturing
of the group.
The designation of the quartet
of screenwriters - Danny Bilson
& Paul De Meo, and Kevin
Willmott & Spike Lee - suggests
that the initial script was penned
by Bilson and De Meo, with
Lee and his Chi-Raq and BlacKkKlansman
collaborator Willmott
giving it a rewrite. In its more
genre-flavored sequences, Da 5
Bloods plays like a relic of the ‘80s,
with the sort of simplistic storytelling
that dogged that decade,
during which Bilson and De Meo
penned scripts for such video
store faves as Trancers and Zone
Troopers. Flashbacks to the war
are accompanied by a Terrence
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