In an effort to keep administrative tasks engaging on screen, even when they were crucial in reality, The Six Triple Eight delays revealing its subject matter about wartime mail delivery for as long as feasible. Instead, it initiates the narrative with the conventional thrill of warfare. The story begins at the Battle of San Pietro in 1943, where a soldier stops amidst the chaos to extract a pilot’s last letter from the wreckage of a crashed plane. This is followed by a shift to Bloomfield, Pennsylvania, a year prior, where Lena Derriecott King (portrayed by Ebony Obsidian) is being picked up from school by Abram David (played by Gregg Sulkin), a wealthy Jewish family’s scion. Their interracial relationship stirs up animosity in some members of their community, and Abram’s evasive conversations do little to alleviate Lena’s affection for him. She follows him to the European theater after he enlists. Unlike other filmmakers who might foreshadow this young love with tragedy given that we soon discover Abram’s body was the one pulled from the plane, The Six Triple Eight, directed by Tyler Perry, lacks subtlety and finesse, much like a war epic performed by an underfunded high-school drama club.