I dunno, maybe this movie didn't impress me too much because the Ron Stallworth character wasn't really given a solid background or foundation for the audience to truly care about him. Nothing too deep about his family and I vaguely remember him mentioning to the female foil as to why he wanted to be a cop, but that wasn't that impressionable to me. Not to say this was a bad Spike Lee flick, but I don't get all the folks saying this is top level Spike Lee.

I'll leave out my other criticisms since they aren't of the nitpicking variety, but the main character not having a strong background story bothered me for the entirety the movie.