I thought this was the worst Spike Lee movie I've seen, and I've seen most (ok Girl 6 was worse). Really disjointed editing, really disjointed tone, inconsistent characterization. Its core themes are incredibly topical and timely but a total failure to deliver on them. There's like 6 movies buried in Da 5 Bloods, not in a good way, as they don't link up at all.

Something like Chi-Raq wasn't perfect but its energy was at least consistent and pure fire, it hit home despite its flaws.

This inconsistent, disjointed feel is the hallmark of Netflix movies -- Triple Frontier was similarly a Treasure of Sierra Madre riff that fell apart by not being one consistent movie but either 2 or 3 different ones that didn't coalesce. The King and the Outlaw King had the same flaws -- disjointed movies that don't know what they want to be and refuse to choose and then land with a dud on the audience.