Many Spike Lee films don’t appeal to me.  MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA is the second Spike Lee Joint (film) that I like (the first was THE INSIDER).  The only problem that keeps this film from being a classic is the present day scenes that bookend the story because I feel this one didn’t need it like SAVING PRIVATE RYAN didn’t either.  I rather be sucked into the World War 2 story than have the story flashback to that time from the present.  MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA starts with a stamp clerk (weeks from retirement) who shoots a man at the post office.   A young reporter and two detectives discover a marble head missing from Florence since World War 2.   Then the story flashes back to World War 2 where four members of the U.S. Army’s all-clack 92^nd Infantry Division (aka the Buffalo Soldiers) who end up trapped behind the enemy lines.  They rescue a young boy and find shelter in a remote Tuscan village.