Easily Lee's most disorganized movie, She Hate Me is also one of the most preposterous efforts by any major director in recent memory.
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08/13/04
She Hate Me (2004)
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Reviews Counted:97
Fresh:19
Rotten:78
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: She Hate Me can't decide if it wants to be a commentary on corporate greed or a sex farce.
Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Harvard, MBA-educated biotech executive John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) gets fired when he informs on his bosses and initiates an investigation into their business dealings by the... [More]
Starring: Kerry Washington, Anthony Mackie, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci
Director: Spike Lee
Reviews for She Hate Me
Plays out as though Genet dumped a handful of front-page stories from The Wall Street Journal into the Script-o-Matic 2000 and pushed the Drama and Farce buttons at the same time, yielding lame results.
08/12/04
Once your hero's crisis is whether or not to pity f@!# card-carrying bombshell Monica Bellucci, you might as well have unicorns and gnomes running around
08/12/04
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08/10/04
Shot in a fast 26 days, the film has an off-the-cuff feel which makes up in enthusiasm what it lacks in polish.
08/08/04
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08/07/04
Top CriticLee, who always has an agenda, is fundamentally unsuited to satire, which has no sides, no friends, no agenda.
08/07/04
For all his irreverence, Lee still seems uncertain how to convey deep, adult feeling without seeming obligated to feel.
08/06/04
Though it's perfectly fine to make convoluted connections as a polemic, Lee's so scattered, you feel at times you're watching a really long skit on Mr. Show -- which is much more politically important than this mess.
08/06/04
She Hate Me invites anger and analysis about the stereotypes it appears to celebrate; a film that attacked those stereotypes would inspire yawns.
08/06/04
Top CriticWhat could Spike Lee have been thinking?
08/06/04
Deeply offensive, staggeringly unfunny, pretentious and, at 140 minutes, about 135 minutes too long...
08/05/04
Fun to watch and fun to think about later; it's chockful of provocative statements about corporate morality, sexual hypocrisy and what's wrong about both today.
08/05/04
... may be the worst movie of the year.
08/02/04
An ambitious but undisciplined mess of a movie...goes all over the place and winds up nowhere.
08/02/04
The mélange of plots, subplots, reveries, gags, cartoons, dirty bits, and hissy fits points to a work that is structurally modelled less on the classic narratives of cinema than on, say, a portion of Russian salad.
08/01/04
Spike Lee's She Hate Me begins with money.
07/31/04
While this presumably all makes sense inside Spike's head, it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever onscreen.
07/30/04
She Hate Me is more like an automobile accident designed to get liberal-minded looky-loos to crane their necks and survey the wreckage.
07/30/04
Spike Lee is taking shotgun-blast aim at, well, everything--from corporate injustice to racial stereotypes to lesbian issues. And with his scattershot approach he misses all of his targets.
07/30/04
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