Tonally, "Chi-Raq" is a wild mess of emotions, a remarkably confusional, human tangle of anger, sadness and disbelief about the way things are; some things are so absurd, you just have to laugh.

Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" is an exuberant, angry, in-your-face and all-over-the-place movie that takes "Lysistrata" from ancient Greece and drops it into present-day Chicago, rhyming couplets and all.

Tonally, "Chi-Raq" is a wild mess of emotions, a remarkably confusional, human tangle of anger, sadness and disbelief about the way things are; some things are so absurd, you just have to laugh.