Red Hook Summer 2012 123movies

Watch: Red Hook Summer 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – A middle-class boy from Atlanta finds his worldview changed as he spends the summer with his deeply religious grandfather in the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn..
Plot: When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his strict grandfather, Enoch, a firebrand preacher, is bent on getting him to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Only Chazz, the feisty girl from church, provides a diversion from the drudgery. As hot summer simmers and Sunday mornings brim with Enoch’s operatic sermons, things turn anything but dull as people’s conflicting agendas collide.
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Ratings:

	5.3/10 Votes: 1,861
	58% | RottenTomatoes
	48/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 18 Popularity: 2.595 | TMDB

Reviews:

Worth Seeing
Red Hook Summer definitely fits within Spike Lee’s oeuvre, recalling the child’s POV-style of storytelling used in Crooklyn and the vivid color palette employed (albeit more effectively) in Do the Right Thing. As other reviewers have no doubt already pointed out, Clarke Peters gives a superb performance, though nobody has yet mentioned Thomas Jefferson Byrd’s performance, which I thought was at least on-par with his previous work if not surpassing it. Byrd’s drunken prophecies shine transparent with hypocrisy, which is a major theme explored on a deeper level once the film’s exterior is peeled back in the final act.

Speaking of which, the final act is undoubtedly the highlight. I can’t go into too much detail or I will spoil the story’s impact. This sequence carries a lot of the film’s weight, but viewers won’t know it until it comes. The sermons are also powerful, both on the pulpit and off. It’s just all too unfortunate that the lackluster acting of the two primary child stars takes away from an otherwise engaging story. And although I am a fan of much of Lee’s work, I will never understand his music choices—oftentimes cheesy songs interfere with what would have been phenomenal left to natural sound… think the father-son reconciliation in the woods in Get on the Bus or some of the moments in Clockers. This is probably a matter of taste, but I can’t get over it. I guess I just like the other elements of his style so much that I wish he could do better with the soundtrack (NOT the score—his scores are usually good).

I guess my main point is that Red Hook Summer is worth seeing, despite the extremely low ratings I’ve seen in various online locales. It’s just not Lee’s best by any means, but not a failure either. It’s just kind of… muddied.

Worth Seeing
Red Hook Summer definitely fits within Spike Lee’s oeuvre, recalling the child’s POV-style of storytelling used in Crooklyn and the vivid color palette employed (albeit more effectively) in Do the Right Thing. As other reviewers have no doubt already pointed out, Clarke Peters gives a superb performance, though nobody has yet mentioned Thomas Jefferson Byrd’s performance, which I thought was at least on-par with his previous work if not surpassing it. Byrd’s drunken prophecies shine transparent with hypocrisy, which is a major theme explored on a deeper level once the film’s exterior is peeled back in the final act.

Speaking of which, the final act is undoubtedly the highlight. I can’t go into too much detail or I will spoil the story’s impact. This sequence carries a lot of the film’s weight, but viewers won’t know it until it comes. The sermons are also powerful, both on the pulpit and off. It’s just all too unfortunate that the lackluster acting of the two primary child stars takes away from an otherwise engaging story. And although I am a fan of much of Lee’s work, I will never understand his music choices—oftentimes cheesy songs interfere with what would have been phenomenal left to natural sound… think the father-son reconciliation in the woods in Get on the Bus or some of the moments in Clockers. This is probably a matter of taste, but I can’t get over it. I guess I just like the other elements of his style so much that I wish he could do better with the soundtrack (NOT the score—his scores are usually good).

I guess my main point is that Red Hook Summer is worth seeing, despite the extremely low ratings I’ve seen in various online locales. It’s just not Lee’s best by any means, but not a failure either. It’s just kind of… muddied.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 1 min (121 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama
Director Spike Lee
Writer Spike Lee, James McBride
Actors Jules Brown, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Toni Lysaith
Country United States
Awards 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Sony PMW-F3
Laboratory Technicolor, New York (NY), USA (digital intermediate)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format XDCAM
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), XDCAM (source format)
Printed Film Format N/A