Had Lee stayed focus on telling a story about the Buffalo Soldiers and their experiences fighting in Italy during World War II, this might have been a genuinely meaningful corrective, a war movie that sets right the experiences of thousands that have heretofore been largely ignored. Unfortunately, as he is wont to do, Lee can’t stay focused on just one major theme, and the film quickly becomes scattered across half a dozen subplots, some of which have little or nothing to do with the film’s ostensible subject. With magical realism, fable, and historical enormity on the brain, Lee stuffs the film’s overlong 160 minutes, but it’s really anyone’s guess what his point is. (Starplex 16, Waco, TX)