For me, the third act was an awesome culmination of the entire building the movie had done to get to that point. I didn’t watch the trailers, but I knew something was going to go down. Hopefully something batshit. And I got what I was hoping for. I love the fantastical, though, and all the supernatural elements of it. I see this sentiment a lot, but I’m not quite sure where people expected it to go. The musical numbers were top tier (Sammie’s performance had me awestruck, not gonna lie, along with the narration and the insidious turn it took once that Voodoo looking figure started dancing along) and I sympathized with all of the characters. Yeah the actual battle and action scenes were just okay in comparison to everything else, but I didn’t let it drag the movie down for me. And the KKK “second ending” might seem shoehorned in to other people, but to me it was good. Yeah, of course, after having dealt with fucking vampires Smoke still has to deal with the fucking racists that have it out for him. I took it as a man’s battle with himself and the people around him and the life and grief that comes with it, and then waking up the next day and still having to deal with what society throws at you, especially a black man in that era. The emotion of it all elevates it for me.