Shaft

April 23, 2007

Rated: R Runtime: 98 min Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Who’s the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks? SHAFT! They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother… SHUT YOUR MOUTH! I’m only talkin’ ’bout Shaft. THEN WE CAN DIG IT!

Shaft

So sayeth the lyrics from the ultra funky smooth theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes. However in the year 2000 John Shaft is actually a cop, and although he alludes to the LD there are no sex scenes. But he is definitely one bad mother.

Samuel L. Jackson gives us a Y2K version of John Shaft. And you’ll never find a cooler cat. He’s smooth with the ladies, has a snappy comeback for any insult and will have a clever solution for any problem. Although he wears nothing but black, he’s definitely a good guy, and the bad guys do not stand a chance. They can empty entire clips of automatic weapons at him, and he’ll just cooly duck out of the way and then take them out with a single returned shot.

And all of this is good! If it sounds predictable and cliche, it is, but it works. And it works well, mainly because Shaft is just so cool. If there’s any question about Samuel L. Jackson being able to play this role, they’ve been answered as he’s spectacular.

As for the movie, it has almost everything we look for in a movie. We get tons of gun play, a quality car chase, outstanding one liners and some major ass whippings. It need only add some large explosions and large tah tahs to be the perfect movie. However, this is one of those movies that virtually the entire review staff wanted to see, and the concensus was that it is definitely a 5 star movie.

Should you go see this movie on the big screen? You damn right!

Posted by Billy Bob | Filed Under 5 Stars, Action, Busta Rhymes, DVD, Jeffrey Wright, R, Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa L. Williams