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Summer of Sam   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews   Critics Reviews User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   The Critics: none available Start Rating Movies Now! Sign In or sign up Yahoo! Users: B- 628 ratings  User Reviews (31 reviews) Write your own review Sort by:  Most HelpfulMost RecentHighest GradeLowest Grade Previous   |  1-10 of 31  |   Next   Overall Grade: C- Story: B Acting: C Direction: D+ Visuals: C- Mediocre Sam Could've Been Great by (movies profile) (Apr 2, 2006) 2 of 2 people found this review helpful Spike Lee really screwed this one up. The story is intriguing and good. It has a nice, interesting premise. A tightly knit nieghborhood's reaction to the rampage of seria... Full Review Overall Grade: C- Story: C Acting: B- Direction: D+ Visuals: C- Not What One Would Expect by David (movies profile) (Apr 2, 2006) 2 of 2 people found this review helpful I expected that this movie would delve into intersting facts about the murders but that was not the case. This movie was more like Saturday Night Fever or Boogie Nights... Full Review Overall Grade: C+ Story: A Acting: B- Direction: D- Visuals: A soooo close spike by Peter (movies profile) (Jun 24, 2005) 2 of 2 people found this review helpful this could have been such a great film. Its all there. There are flashes of brillance. Like 25th hour, some marvalous sequences, and then the movie digresses into spik... Full Review Overall Grade: A- Story: A- Acting: A Direction: B+ Visuals: A John Leguizamo is Amazing by Paul D (movies profile) (Apr 2, 2006) 2 of 3 people found this review helpful The story traces the painful dissolution of a relationship (Leguizamo & Sorvino), which occurs in NYC in 1977 while Son of Sam was on the loose. The film did not get much... Full Review Overall Grade: D+ Story: C- Acting: C Direction: D+ Visuals: D+ This movie was unbearingly long by Michael (movies profile) (Mar 21, 2006) 2 of 3 people found this review helpful Doing a movie about Son of Sam was a good idea but this movie came up way short in delivering. The the movie was about 2 hours and 20 minutes in length. With some more se... Full Review Overall Grade: C Story: N/A Acting: N/A Direction: N/A Visuals: N/A A good idea with mixed results by jimmyb242 (movies profile) (Mar 21, 2006) 1 of 1 people found this review helpful Summer of Sam could've been really good. It has a promising story that is very interesting and a very keen eye for period detail. All of that is braught to little effect... Full Review Overall Grade: C- Story: C- Acting: C- Direction: D+ Visuals: D+ not good by Bobby (movies profile) (Mar 21, 2006) 1 of 1 people found this review helpful I thought that this movie was not good at all. I was not impressed at all. Spike Lee should of given up his carrer early in the game. To me, all the character did was... Full Review Overall Grade: B+ Story: B+ Acting: A- Direction: A+ Visuals: A Another great Spike Lee film! by Mattt (movies profile) (Jul 18, 2004) 1 of 1 people found this review helpful Spike Lee is the most under-rated director of all-time. People just see him as the little loud-mouth black man that spends his off-directing time sitting on the sideline... Full Review Overall Grade: C+ Story: N/A Acting: N/A Direction: N/A Visuals: N/A interesting film, but.... by hip- hop (movies profile) (May 24, 2004) 1 of 1 people found this review helpful This film could have been a lot better. There was so much more suspence that could have been seen in this film. Also, the direction of the film was lost at some point. it... Full Review Overall Grade: D Story: D+ Acting: C+ Direction: F Visuals: C- Horrible!!! by Ryan (movies profile) (Apr 2, 2006) 1 of 2 people found this review helpful Summer of Sam is a really boring, long, drug-induced hallucination of Spike Lee's. The acting was good, but anything from that, the movie is bad. John Leguizamo did good,... Full Review Previous   |  1-10 of 31  |   Next