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Spike Lee sometimes makes movies that are too provocative for critics to think straight. It’s hard to imagine, say, his complex 2000 satire on race and the press, “Bamboozled,” enjoying widespread acclaim upon its release, no matter its quality. But Mr. Lee’s new World War II film, “Miracle at St. Anna,” which opens Friday, is not an example of the director’s volatile filmic chemistry blowing up the laboratory. It’s just not very good, never mind compelling enough to sustain a 160-minute sprawl that, at the end, leaves one puzzling over where exactly the time went.
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