News > Trailer for Spike Lee's "Miracle at St. Anna"

Yahoo! just posted a new theatrical trailer for Spike Lee's upcoming World War II film "Miracle at St. Anna," starring Derek Luke, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, and Michael Ealy. The quartet play Buffalo Soldiers trapped behind enemy lines, hiding in a small, sympathetic Italian village. Apparently Joseph Gordon-Levitt and John Turturro will also be making appearances as contemporary (meaning 1983) policemen assigned to investigate a murder committed by an African-American veteran of WWII.

I'd recommend taking a look at the trailer; this film has a lot of potential. There seems to be a lot of action, obviously high stakes, and potentially interesting characters. Though, I must admit, I could probably do without the 1983-set "mystery" part, and I say that with all due respect to Gordon-Levitt & Co. It's just that that sort of bookended format feels too derivative of "Saving Private Ryan" and, dare I say it, Spike's latest antagonist Clint Eastwood's "Letters from Iwo Jima." 

-David Morgan