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It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.

Have you seen the five bloods yet?

Spike Lee moving?

I mean, you should.

It's one of the best of the year.

It follows the story of four black veterans of the Vietnam War who return to Saigon,

now Ho Chi Minh City.

Officially, they are looking for the remains of their fallen squad leader.

Unofficially, well, unofficially.

Somewhere in the jungle, there's a bunch of gold they left behind and they want to find

it.

The cast of the five bloods is really something.

There's Clark Peters and Isaiah Whitlock Jr. from the wire, Jonathan Majors from the last

Black Man in San Francisco and Lovecraft Country, the late Chadwick Boseman.

But the star is probably Del Roy Lindo, he plays Paul.

Paul returns to Vietnam, a changed man, a widower whose son is tagging along out of fear

for what might happen to his dad, a veteran who struggled to cope with the trauma of war,

and on his head, he's a make America great again hat.

Returning to the land which caused all of them so much pain, opens old wounds and reignites

unresolved heartache.

Del Roy Lindo loses himself in the role it's breathtaking.

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