Spike Lee's classy post-9/11 New York drama is ostensibly about a convicted drug dealer's busy last day before jail (or "the hoosegow", as no one seems able to resist calling it). But forget the unsavoury selling-substances-in-schoolyards backstory to Norton's convincingly sculpted Monty Brogan: this movie's really about love, loss, greed, betrayed trust and fallen heroes. And, perhaps inevitably for a Spike Lee joint, the biggest fallen hero of all is the battered Big Apple, with a ghostly Ground Zero making a thumping, resonant cameo.

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A Spike Lee career overview boasts articulate big-name contributions (Martin Scorsese, Denzel Washington), some deleted scenes are terrific, and four near-silent minutes of Ground Zero footage will thrill those with an interest in seeing dumptrucks in poignant places. The real disappointment is Spike's low-effect commentary. For a man who has a fearsome reputation when it comes to being outspoken, he remains surprisingly quiet throughout and hardly mutters a word during Brogan's infamous anti-New Yorker-of-all-races rant ("Fuck the Korean grocers with their pyramids of overpriced fruit..."). Novelist/screenwriter David Benioff's equivalent voiceover is a fountain of insight by contrast.