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No single force on heaven or earth could’ve possibly prepared me for that final shot
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Action! – Spike The Power, Lee The Riot’ Arguably one of the most hysterical endings ever. Although, if you think about it, it fits in well with the melodramatic and sometimes almost PSA-like tone. As a romantic comedy directed by Spike Lee about an interracial love affair, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the romance is simply a plot device for the director to comment on the racism that still persists to a greater or lesser extent among interracial couples, especially those who still believe in and die for racial purity. Occasionally, this commentary can feel a little preachy, but Lee always strives to bring humour and truth to the situation. The performances from Wesley and Annabella are solid, not their…
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would be a masterpiece if it wasn’t for literally the worst ending i’ve ever witnessed
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It is always great when Spike Lee is unleashed and just moves around whatever is on his mind, and few of his movies do it quite like this one. Barely interest in narrative and the Jackson thread is allowed to completely overwhelm Sciorra’s plot because in a movie about upward mobility, the anxiety of going down remains the most haunting one. Also, probably the most honest Lee has ever been about his own mixed feelings about his Hollywood career. Ernest Dickerson’s finest hour and Spike’s best cast.
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i find spike’s style incredibly fun and watchable (same with many of the performances he gets out of his cast) even when his writing is as messy and sometimes plain reductive/stupid as it can be here. i heard about the infamous final shot for years and somehow still had my face melted by it lol. best part honestly might be the music by stevie wonder
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Better than Crash, but definitely Spike Lee’s most Crash-like movie. Spent the whole movie excitedly waiting for the notorious Final Shot. It didn’t disappoint.
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A great musical panorama about upward mobility and class anxiety that is probably still Lee’s most radical gambit of let its many disparate part just go as far as they can while still enlighten each other. Lee likes playing with ideas and the main relationship here is entire theoretical by design which can make the main narrative feel hollow until one accepts its just a strong throughline for Lee’s anxieties about his own position. Often embarrassing, pretty frank, full of swings, unexpected notes (McKee’s big speech) and good small observations (Snipes taking all his frustration at his brother’s junkie girlfriend instead of him). It is hold together by Lee’s use of music and the best group of performances he ever got (Turturro and Jackson in particular do career best work),
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SSally Jane Black 8 月 25, 2026
Random thoughts: * This seemed at first like it was going to be more consistently erotic, and there were moments where the camera enjoyed the sensual bodies on screen. But it delved into social and political drama sharply and quickly, which, while not surprising, was still not what I expected simply because of my perceptions of the hype around the film from back in the day (when I was far too young/ignorant to really understand anyway). (Come to think of it, I think the song contributed to that perception.) * Stacked cast. * I wonder how white actors must feel speaking racist dialogue in front of black directors. I suspect that white guilt can fuel a powerful performance in some…
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basically, it wouldn’t have even been the kind of movie i would’ve seen until a few years ago, and instead… 😋 once again, i was surprised by how much i was captivated by this director’s work 🥸 among all the wonderful and talented cast, SLJ’s performance really stood out, carrying the subplot 🔥 the final scene was a cliffhanger, but i think i understood it and i think i managed to integrate it into the context 🥴 it’s more of a 3.75⭐, but for now i’ll leave it like that 🤓✌️
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Number 25 in the month-long NYC movie marathon with my beloved is an entry from another quintessential New York director, Spike Lee. I was today years old when I saw Spike Lee’s sociopolitical opus Jungle Fever, but I was six the first time I was accused of having the titular malady. I had my first crush—my neighbor and schoolmate; a smart, amiable, beautiful boy who obliged me in playing ‘detective’ (I had a thing for Harriet the Spy) and never shunned me on the schoolyard. And he was Black, but so were most of the children in my school. I remember my friends jovially teasing me by singing the Stevie Wonder tune, not really knowing the cultural and political weight…
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One of Spike Lee’s weakest when it comes to writing; flat, ordinary, and all over the place. His take on relationships defined by racial differences has aged like milk. Samuel L. Jackson still delivers one of his best performances, and Wesley Snipes is great too, specially when he’s bouncing off Spike. The story has its decent amount of drama and fun, but you can feel it’s always reaching for more than it actually gives. And that final shot… Straight-up lame, had me laughing out loud. Ranked: Spike Lee
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🔥🌆🚫Everyone pays the Price – You got a big problem. You and her. The both of youse got the fever. – The what? – The fever. The both of youse got jungle fever. 👨🏿🤝👩🏻💔💉Yeah… It was quite uncomfortable to watch, and I don’t even know which was worse, the main storyline or the subplot about addiction, it was tough either way. But before I get into the movie itself, that ending? What was that even about? Um, one of the most “huh?” endings I’ve ever seen? As for the main plot, it’s brutal, realistic, emotionally devastating, and really gets the whole issue of racism across. While I was watching, it occurred to me that even if this story were set…
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FFilmhaus Nürnberg 8 月 22, 2026
22.8. in der Reihe “9 x 90s”
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The movie felt so real,
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Watched with a mate, every time they said the hard R or the word ‘black’ we drank. Safe to say I can’t remember how the movie ends.
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DDavid 8 月 18, 2026
It was a fun movie way too long. But great music fun performances. Just felt all over the place and I agree with someone’s review saying it felt like a PSA.
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I’m just not a fan of the pacing, it drags a bit and I wish the ending was… more inspired. This takes things head on and its reality is bleak for everyone, there’s a lot to consider that doesn’t make you feel good, and I like that. The things I don’t like are more from a story telling and “wish more happened” perspective. I don’t think this uses its 2 hour run time wisely in terms of letting things unfold,…
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Obsessed with the score in this
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Now we know why phil did 20 years in the can
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🤣🤣🤣🤣 that ending man, what the actual fuck. Sam Jackson getting his break in this movie lowkey is ironic. The dude spent twenty years addicted to crack cocaine, finally got himself sorted out in rehab, only to be given a Spike Lee joint where he plays … a crack addict haha This was kindve all over the shop but I didn’t mind it too much, I’m aware however that I just love Spike Lee joints and most people will probably hate this
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Solid Lee film with strong performances—Snipes and Jackson particularly—an ambitious racial examination that’s never diluted, and Dickerson’s reliably striking cinematography. There’s a genuine emotional weight to the film, aided by dialogue that often feels remarkably honest. The two parallel storylines—the interracial affair and Gator’s addiction—are powerful individually, but never fully coalesce, leaving the film feeling like two compelling stories competing for space. Working against it further is a score that feels misplaced and jarring at times, and the resulting bloat of a film that could’ve benefited from some tightening.
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Me watching this next to my black mom and white dad 👁️👄👁️ No but honestly this movie was too American for me. They really have a problem with race and skin colour
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[Angie getting the living shit beaten out of her by her dad] Stevie Wonder: 🎹😎’Theeeeesse threeeee woorrrrrds!😎🎶
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Still has that great frenetic Spike Lee style but most definitely the weakest script I’ve seen from him so far. Samuel L’s story heavily carries this one.
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Cchad 8 月 17, 2026
A lot going on. I also liked it a lot.
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A Spike Lee joint. I’ve never known what Jungle Fever actually means and I’ve always thought this was a movie set in an actual jungle. Yes, I’m stupid.
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Aucune force venue de la terre ou du ciel n’aurait put me préparer à cette dernière scène…
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The Taj Mahal!! Shit The third act ramps the drama up to a 10 somehow the whole time and the actors carrrrry a pretty okay script. Casting is insanely good which is par for the course with Mr. Spike Lee. Halle Berry as Vivian is of course a standout. And Samuel L Jackson as Gator.
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26 for ’26 (23 of 26) Stevie Wonder & crack The shot of Flipper and Angie sitting on opposite sides of the bed is motherfucking art. Spike was in his duffy with that one! 👜 Can you blame Flipper? Yes. Was he trippin’? Yes. Did I melt when she said “lasagna” the way she did? Also yes. But it’s a movie, I would never! 😰
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A jumbled mess of a movie that starts off with enough intrigue and plot structure, but falls apart a third of the way into it. There’s a variety of characters and storylines to follow, but none of them have any sort of resolution. The more I think about this film, the more unanswered questions I have. It seems like Spike Lee wanted to tell multiple stories and tried to smash them together into one film – the final product leaves…
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Omg. The issue of interracial relationships continue today and I never thought that there was such an issue until now. I understood that there are hardships but the vividness of it in this film and the deeper issues demonstrate that racism still exists in relationships. Now that I’ve realized it, my family have had interracial relationships but they all ended back at the tree, marrying their “own kind.” I’m sick of it. Why are people still letting racism dictate their…
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Jungle Fever is another example of squandered potential. You had a committed cast which was wasted on a meandering and poorly scripted movie. The ending is bafflingly horrible. I loved all the original Stevie Wonder music which made this still worth watching to me.
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Ending left me a bit confused admittedly but it’s hard to deny how fascinating the film’s enigmatic vibe leaves you with is. Especially with that cast and Stevie Wonder’s music. I probably don’t fully understand what it was trying to say but I was still hooked by it throughout.
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Hmmm. Even a broken clock is right twice a day
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I was kind of surprise to see that a lot of people don’t like this one. I think viewing it as a commentary on interracial dating as a whole would definitely make the experience of watching it worse, but I just saw it as a story about an interracial relationship between people from two socially conservative communities that have a complicated history with race in America. I enjoyed the leads, but the best of their time together is at the…
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found it quite introspective on nuclear familial dynamics and the structure of patriarchy in households. i really wish the female characters were more fleshed out, especially angie since her relationship with flipper was the focal point of the film.
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Ssalami 8 月 12, 2026
i cant form an opinion about this movie.. i’ll be back when i rewatch also she’s literally genderbent eddie kaspbrak
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should’ve had Woody as the love interest again
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The ending was insane.
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o melhor do spike lee
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“coochie 🤭🤷♂️” pretty great performances from everyone. easily one of Spike’s greatest ensembles. drags at points and doesn’t really build the eroticism it’s trying to with the affair. layers of family are woven much more intricately. honestly it could’ve just been about that instead of him already being in a marriage and with a family but i digress.
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„You hate me. You hate your own father!“ „I don’t hate you. I’d like to kill you, but I don’t hate you.“ Wow, so I did not remember a single thing about this from when I watched it 17 or so years ago. But rewatching it, I understand why given how meandering and outright weak its script is for the most part. While powerful in immersing the viewer in the incessant racism of people, it unfortunately also immerses the viewer…
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Flipper Purify, there will be no penis between us! A hysterical, meandering, gorgeous, uneven, and complicated tragedy of the curious new world in which everyone is mixed up and nobody really belongs. About as serious as a movie titled Jungle Fever opening with the Stevie Wonder lyrics “she’s gone black-boy crazy, I’ve gone white-girl hazy” could aspire to be, but don’t mistake the premise for the project because this is Spike Lee in pure stream of consciousness mode, with all…
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Entre “Do the Right Thing”, de 1989, e “Malcolm X”, de 1992, Spike Lee lança “Jungle Fever”, em 1991, e acredito que, nessa fase, o diretor chega ao auge de sua inspiração ao construir obras com fortes críticas sociais ao racismo. Embora a narrativa principal parta de um envolvimento extraconjugal entre um homem negro e uma mulher branca, vejo Spike Lee constantemente questionando o lugar que a sociedade insiste em impor aos negros. O ódio que cerca o relacionamento entre…
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was gonna give it one star but the “living for the city” sequence bumps it up to two stars. edit: WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ENDING??? aw hell naw, one star.
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Terrible movie but Sciorra is excellent in it.
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JJonathan Hurley 8 月 6, 2026
When a filmmaker wants to explore an idea, so all of his characters just spend the whole movie talking about the idea
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The movie is good but same time it’s stupid
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Blade si dijera: where the white women at?
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Earnest, thoughtful, epic… and then that final shot is… DePalma-esque?
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This movie is a different level of undisciplined
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we decided to make a drinking game out of this film, taking a shot or swig every time “black” was uttered. safe to say we learned to fear group settings and any/all conversations and dialogue in this film veryyyy quickly.
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“your family is racist” “then what’s all this stuff you’re saying?” i was in an interracial relationship for 3 years and as goofy as this movie was at times, it hit home. the arguments about their hypothetical kids… god why are people racist???? especially to people you claim to love??? im triggered now.
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Didn’t see this movie until later in life, after living in NYC and marrying a Swiss woman. These concepts in 1991 were still a hot button topic and I didn’t realize how much this movie talked about. Much more than just white and black relationships but so much more. Very eye opening. Definitely a building block to the legacy of spike Lee. Really enjoyed watching it but slight spoiler…. The ending isn’t a happy one. Not sad, but just…. Reality. Good film overall.
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Très drôle, le début de beaucoup de bons acteurs. Le film aborde principalement problèmes de drogues survenus aux usa à cette époque + les conflits entre communautés
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Købte jeg en film bare fordi stevie wonder har lavet det meste af soundtraclet? Måske 🥸
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“You got a big problem. You and her. Both of you’s got the fever… The both of you’s got jungle fever.” Great movie, great soundtrack, shoutout Stevie Wonder. Only thing holding it back is that wacky-ass ending. The ending is the only bad thing about this; otherwise, I’d give it a 5 because, aside from that singular flaw, it’s a really good movie with an important message.
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Wesley sniper vai abandonar sua esposa e filhos sempre que possível.
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Sam Jackson and Ernest Dickerson are fucking soaring here. I do not and imagine never will understand Spike’s deployment of score.
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no clue why it took me this long to finally get around to this. Upper tier Spike: great cast/needle drops and a couple surprisingly gut punch scenes… loved it
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think it works best as a time capsule of these families and of the mood around colorism during the early 90s. it feels silly to call this film a romcom but that what it wants to be for those opening scenes which really made took away my enjoyment for the supporting cast and made everything feel so slow. initially. and it wrapped the film up nicely at the end when I much preferred it messy. but man the crackhouse scene, the police scene, sam jackson coming home at the end, when flipper’s wife debriefed blackness with her friends – all so so moving.
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flipper was parading around the woman he was cheating on his wife with in broad daylight while ragebaiting everyone and was then surprised his wife found out 😭 if only everyone was like paulie❤️
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Bon petit film sympathique qui traite des inégalités raciales aux USA. Si je ne suis pas toujours fan du ton très “face à face” de Spike Lee quand il traite de ce sujet, j’aime beaucoup le développement très nuance de ses personnages dans ce film.
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There were some real script problems, and the sound mixing was absolutely god awful, but man, that “Living in the City” sequence was one of the best scenes I have ever watched in a film. Also – outside of the stigma of interracial dating – there is not a chance in hell a girl from Bensonhurst would be willing to make the commute to see a guy in Harlem.
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🔥🌆🚫Everyone pays the Price – You got a big problem. You and her. The both of youse got the fever. – The what? – The fever. The both of youse got jungle fever. 👨🏿🤝👩🏻💔💉Yeah… It was quite uncomfortable to watch, and I don’t even know which was worse, the main storyline or the subplot about addiction, it was tough either way. But before I get into the movie itself, that ending? What was that even about? Um, one of the…
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Feel privileged to watch Ossie Davis and Rube Dee’s work, you could feel their entire backstory within a few moments of their first scene Very good movie filled with very great actors & scenes. Flip finding out that Cyrus spilled the beans was a perfect scene and had me cheering on the couch as if my favorite team scored a goal. Need to get out more.
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I just watch this film for Wesley snipes being sexy. Also it’s a classic.
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Holy shit
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The best part of this movie is Stevie Wonders’ soundtrack. I really was hoping to love it, hearing only good things about the performances and the story, but unfortunately it just fell a bit flat for me. It’s really scattered in what it wants to be and what story it is trying to tell and that prevents it from truly being great. That final shot though, no matter how hyped up it was nothing prepared me for what it was going to be lmao. Also starts with some really wild street signs superimposed on top of shots of New York City. Interesting creative choices
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Spike Lee’s style is very distinctive, the performances in this were absolutely amazing as well as the shot choices, colouring, music and transitions. I thought this was very strong but that final shot was perhaps not the beat choice
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Spike Lee is truly an amazing director. Great performances from Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Lonette McKee but the best performances were definitely Sam L, John Turturro, Ruby Dee and Halle Berry. Truly an amazing movie with a great cast of characters and a really interesting story. Wtf was that ending tho.
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this film has my favourite things spike lee ever put to screen wrapped up in some of the dumbest, most unfocused, literal, overwrought, indulgent bullshit ever conceived. most of the turturo stuff can go (he’s fantastic but the characters around him just literalize forms of expression already achieved without these dumbass caricatures). those corner shop personalities too are also the more frustrating when lee exemplifies being able to paint slightly similar but less self-serious figures in summer of sam. logan…
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strangest weirdest ending that didn’t make sense and i didn’t like but apart from that really good film
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The Stevie Wonder soundtrack was impeccable.
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Fresher und adretter gekleidet sah Wesley Snipes in keinem Film wieder aus, der einen hier mit seinem eindrucksvollen Schauspiel darüber betrübt, dass er in seiner Karriere so selten zeigen konnte, was für ein talentierter und charismatischer Charakterdarsteller, mit einer ungeheuren Präsenz, er sein kann.
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if i could rate the cast alone, i’d give 5 stars. but the film itself is all over the place and i felt like there’s not much depth to some characters that if given more screentime, would’ve been spectacular
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Encore une pépite, merci Spike Lee…
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eita como é bom ter liberdade criativa né véi
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plane movie number 3 wooly and discursive but in a fun way, where the whole thing may not tie together to a fully baked thesis but you feel like Spike is just putting his life, thoughts, and experiences on the screen. all the characters are fun! Wesley Snipes is so sexy! all the Italian characters are from Marty’s stable! the song over the opening credits! The crack den! what a fun Sam Jack performance
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AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH you got… Euh… Jungle Fever… Me too… Ou j’sais pas quoi là Bah c’était bien. J’aime bien les films de Spike Lee. Regardez le. Franchement, ça vous va vous éduquer un peu sur à quel point le racisme peut devenir hypocrite, alors que blanc, noir, rouge, jaune, bleu, même merde, on veut tous être accepté tel que nous sommes et aimer qui nous voulons aimer (quand bien même nous ayons réellement le choix…)
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“COKE ON HER BLACK SKIN MADE IT STRIPPED LIKE A ZEBRA, I CALL THAT JUNGLE FEVER” + : -les plans de camera et la réalisation très familiers à Do The Right Thing j’aime bien retrouver cette signature de Spike Lee dans ce film également où on ressent qu’il déborde d’idées en terme de technique et qu’il ne se laisse pas limiter pour tenter tt ce qu’il vx entreprendre. -Spike Lee a vrm ce talent d’écrire chaque personnages de façon à avoir tt…
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That brotha was just messy. If you’re going to cheat, at least cheat with sense🤦🏾♂️😭 Solid plot at the start, brilliant cast and interesting themes but got a bit too melodramatic. Still adore Spike though.
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There is a lot of really good stuff in here, but it fails to connect in the way Crooklyn and Do The Right Thing do. The Angie character feels underwritten and it’s weird that we spend more time with her ex-bf than her, even if he’s one of the lovelier parts of the movie (John Turturo is never bad). All the crackhead stuff is really intense to the point of being preachy and the last scene really soured me on the whole movie.
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idk why I liked this so much, but I found this to be a very effective movie in what it sets out to achieve. samuel l. jackson’s performance as gator is phenomenal, his subplot was heartbreaking and genuinely had me fucked up. the acting can be a bit choppy, but the writing canceled it out. very messy structure wise as spike introduces so many characters, but the characters themselves are interesting and fleshed out enough with their own ideas that…
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as everyone is saying, not spike lee’s best work, but i love how much life & depth he always adds to every character and it shines here too.
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tiene momentos muy tops, pero el final es mierdini mierdini. aun asi es muy interesante, paulie el mejor
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Okay no conclusions 😄
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Hardcore
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Almost completely undone by one of the most ridiculous closing shots in movie history. (SpikeWatch, 5/24)
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An exceptional, meandering narrative–something that Spike Lee is so good at–that covers the dynamic between fantasy and anxiety, in an interesting way, by centering on the further complicating elements of family. There is so much drama going on, though, that it’s a bit difficult to follow the thread. Spike Lee has been clearer, and he has hit harder, but what makes this stand-out is the terrific direction and the visual cohesion. This is incredibly polished and the performances are impeccable.
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Still one of Spike’s best. It’s a sweet spot in his career and that cast! Stevie’s soundtrack is a belter and Spike’s 90’s Harlem and NY never looked so good.
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todo mundo era tão mal com a angie 💔
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Honestly, Spike Lee might be my favorite director ever, his shots feel so intentional and the plot is always raw. In my heart I can not give a movie that involves cheating more than 4 stars because it deeply upsets me. The other 0.5 is for the ending because that threw the entire movie for me. I do not understand, him and his wife that he cheated on have sex and then next scene he’s talking to his child daughter…
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JJordan Brooks 7 月 17, 2026
Never expected this to be so affecting. A singular vision from Spike that really touched me. And the Stevie soundtrack never sounded as good as it did with the film behind it
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This 1990s American drama, directed by Spike Lee, follows Flipper, a married Black architect played by Wesley Snipes, who begins an affair with Angie, his white secretary, played by Annabella Sciorra. This is an excellent film, supported by a strong cast that includes Samuel L. Jackson, Halle Berry, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, and Anthony Quinn. It explores significant themes such as racism, interracial relationships and drug addiction. Overall, this is another outstanding film from Spike Lee, complemented by an equally…
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This felt like one of Spike’s weakest films. It’s exploring a lot of ideas and perspectives quite messily and his writing as regards to interracial relationships are reductive and definitely dated. Spines gives a fine performance, though Samuel Jackson is a force! Incredible performance on his part alongside Ruby Dee. Their final scene together was absolutely devastating. Complete tonal shift for the film, in bringing the background story crashing into the center fold in a powerful conclusion. Though for the…
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I’m still pretty flummoxed by the ending
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This is in some ways Do the Right Thing’s unfocused little brother as its interrogating racial conflicts between African American and Italian American communities. Here, the Italian Americans, themselves an often racialized and stereotypized community, come of somewhat cartoonish at times though. Jungle Fever is at its most interesting when it’s interrogating the public reaction to the central affair. It touches on a lot of topics that I am not the right person to comment on about. I do think…
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Iisaacmuir 7 月 14, 2026
I really do not know what to make of that little girl hearing her parents having sex and grinning ear to ear in bed
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BBen Blacker 7 月 13, 2026
I started to watch all of Spike’s movies last year, but so few of them are available streaming that I’m just sort of catching them when and where I can. Anyway, this one starts so strong! The family stuff (both families) is so good, and there are some killer performances, speeches, fuck-around scenes, Dickerson cinematography, and bold music choices. But it’s just all over the place and ultimately the romantic relationships don’t ring true at all.
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Non avrà la stessa magia di Do The Right Thing ma ho apprezzato molto anche Jungle Fever, con quella fotografia, quella colonna sonora e quel cast stellare…
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Puedes decir perfectamente que quien se encargo del casting de Los Soprano, se fijo mucho en esta peli. Anabella Sciorra y los hombres casados es una cosa. Pero les entiendo es ELLA. Stevie Wonder cocinó. Tengo tanta lecturas que hacer de esto, pero simplemente diré que era muy necesaria antes y lo es aún ahora. Spike Lee perdió su toque por que esto es una obra maestra. La subtrama paralela de Gator (Samuel L.Jackson) no hace mucho y alguna vez…
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I think this takes a few detours that seem less productive overall but it’s still a solid, giddily classical Lee joint with some terrific performances and a good head on its shoulders.
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Spike Lee always reminds me that I need to be more ashamed of my Italian American heritage. The irony of being racist immigrants is wild but that’s colonization for ya. This was an interesting film that tackled a ton of themes that I didn’t know it would be getting into. I loved the soundtrack and the cast was perfect. My only issue was the ending felt a little anticlimactic for a few of the characters plotlines.
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interesting time piece on early 90s new york and the conversations around race that were happening. i really liked how all the scenes of a group of characters talking about rave and their different perceptions about how it affects their relationships and opportunities. both lead characters had something missing in their lives whether it be excitement or building towards something. the ending was tragic and really captured what women endured in the past as they often had to take back their husbands despite infidelity and all the pain
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Nnick 7 月 11, 2026
brinity cute moments
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What a wild ride. uh I didnt know italians were so racist in the 1990s. It was very fun to see all of these actors when they were super young. ‘Oh that’s the guy from severance’ and ‘oh samuel L jackson looks so young here’. Just reminds me of For Free by Kendrick Lamar tbh. There were unintentionally funny bits like the Italians yearning for Rudy Giuliani. I think my two biggest issues is how quick the main characters ‘fall in love’ and the audio mixing kept going from whispering to loud racist screaming all the time. I feel like Spike Lee is punking me.
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I think spike really needs to picks and choose storylines better because there always way too much happening. Music was odd at some parts and honestly the main relationship was established way to quickly and could’ve been built upon better
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overly written, redundancy all throughout the script, and one of those films that absolutely feel personal for its creator to the point of projection—i.e., Spike’s own class disposition (and the fear of racialized class immobility), arguably to its detriment. but there’s an air of righteous honesty & earnest self-criticism that i find both admirable and endearing to the point that many of my criticisms feel neutralized. however, that final shot, my goodness, is so laughably bad. like we genuinely laughed out…
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The problem was not even adultery is was with who , they committed it . The issue is race in the USA is like a disease that has been are the centre of the country , I think will be forever included in their history.
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gotta watch this with my wigga
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imma need to watch ts again cuz idk how i feel abt it. i need to ponder and assess, did grandma survive jungle fever? i got many questions abt what spikes tryna say abt my family icl. cold joint tho as per. i dig it.
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A good movie, that tackles a lot of serious issues, but it definitely has a lot of stereotypes. Worth watching once
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Perhaps the boldest and most earnest Spike Lee joint up to this point in his career, Jungle Fever is a loud and proud dive into the bigotry surrounding interracial love. It uses 2+ hour runtime to hit nearly every corner of this topic, and then some, an effort that it’s hard not to be a little taken by in the end. Lee’s sex scenes are often scintillating and romantic, but nowhere is that attitude more necessary than in Jungle Fever.…
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Welsey Snipes really knows how to play a terrible person. Its almost if…..
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Rent:: You Tube (20.00 MX)
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Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever forces its audience to look directly into societal dysfunctions. It is a stunning, raw cinematic achievement that bravely interrogates the destructive impact of media-driven sexual myths, systemic racism, and the crack epidemic across the segregated neighborhoods of New York City. The heart of my fascination lies in how Lee deconstructs interracial desire versus genuine love. When Flipper and Angie cross racial lines, it is a dangerous dance with stereotypes and fetishization. I love how the dialogue…
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Les clichés raciaux ont la vie dure, ils sont entretenus y compris par ceux qui en sont victimes. La fièvre ne retombe pas. Désespérant.
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NNot Greil Marcus 3 月 3, 2019
Ask Greil 3/3/19 I can’t find anything more than a passing reference in your work (in an early Top Ten) to Spike Lee. Are there any films of his you enjoyed? Did you see BlacKKKlansman? Armond White tore into it. Would love to know your thoughts. – Terry I can’t say why I haven’t written more about Spike Lee. The movie that most captivated me was Jungle Fever. I thought it was deeply complex, never obvious, the characters drawn with…
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“Jungle Fever” is Spike Lee’s term for unhealthy sexual attraction between the races – for relationships based on stereotypes. Too often, he believes, when blacks and whites go to bed with one another, they are motivated, not by love or affection, but by media-based myths about the sexual allure of the other race. Lee has explained this belief in countless interviews, and yet it remains the murkiest element in his new film, which is brilliant when it examines the people…
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Por Leonardo García Tsao (17 de mayo de 1991) Altas expectativas había para la nueva película del realizador Spike Lee, titulada Jungle Fever (Fiebre de selva), que la función de prensa se llenó con bastante anticipación. El resultado ha sido decepcionante para todos los que esperábamos algo similar a Haz lo correcto, su mejor obra hasta el momento. En esta ocasión, el cineasta aborda una historia de amor interracial para hacer sus ya habituales comentarios críticos sobre la sociedad estadounidense.…
- Synopsis
- A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
- Director
- Spike Lee
- Writer
- Spike Lee
- Studio
- 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Universal Pictures
- Country
- USA
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1991
- Runtime
- 132 mins
- France16 May 1991
- USA07 Jun 1991
- Sweden06 Sep 1991
- Australia26 Sep 1991
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