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Summary: Not the original
Review: It's good, but not the original shaft. It's an easy watch. Nothing too special.
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Summary: Painfully predictable
Review: I was really bored watching this movie. Unoriginal plot and a stupid ending. Samuel Jackson was overwhemingly fiery. I could only appreciate Christian Bale's performance.
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Summary: Unoriginal, uninspired
Review: Boring movie. The term generic action flick comes to mind.The ending was really stupid. I like Sam Jack, but this movie was awful. John Singelton has fallen alot since Boyz in the Hood.
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Summary: This movie is unaccepatbly bad
Review: Two stars are achieved simply by the handful of momements of good lines, which are even still so cliche as to be almost totally disarmed. Since this is something of a parody on the classic, some degree of "awfulness" should be allowed for. Unfortunately, this movie has none of the traits of the original that make is so "Good" by being so "Bad." Instead, this movie is just plain horrible. Other than the opening credits, there's no sex at all. Come on! This movie would have been much better done by a college film major without the oppression of corporate censorship. Don't buy this movie unless you like to support the Man, the System, or whatever else you want to call this world we live in.
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Summary: Finally a good action film
Review: One of the few true action films around for a good while. No drama or politicaly correct scenes, Shaft just lets it rip . This time you wont have to wait too long till the hero gets his revenge, bones will break and head will roll when Shaft is loose. Let your bad-temper run wild with Shaft, as it will truly appease your appetite for destruction.
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Summary: Utterly Surprised
Review: I was a teenager when the original Shaft starring Richard Roundtree was released. I loved Richard Roundtree's performance and I loved Issac Hayes' original sound track. Before seeing the 2000 version with Samuel L. Jackson in the title role, there was no way anyone could ever make me believe that Samuel L. (my name for him) would be convincing as Shaft. While I was aware that the film was not intended to be a remake, I went to see the film fully expecting to be disappointed. Well, seeing was believing. I loved the movie (I'm generally not a fan of violence, but in this case I was willing to forgive it). I loved Samuel L's performance and Issac Hayes' music never sounded better! John Singleton did an outstanding job not to mention the fact that he taught me (an old dog) a new trick. Well done!
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Summary: It's all about Peoples!!
Review: Shaft initially struck me as anticlimatic. Until I took a closer look at the stellar performance of Jeffrey Wright as Peoples. Wright captured the heart and soul of the designer-clad,thick-accented Dominican Republican and made him come alive in a way that brought a sharp pang of homesickness to this Bronx-bred sister. As I listened to Wright speak and witnessed his swaggering machismo I could hardly believe he was American born. This film was decent and sometimes even surprising but Peoples definitely proved himself the 'star'. Busta Rhymes injected a strong note of hilarity and Vanessa Williams was very believable in her role as a street cop (no sign of glamour). Samuel L. Jackson was a good-looking Shaft but came across as a little too volatile.
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Summary: not shaft at all
Review: i thought this movie was the biggest pile of poo i had seen in a long time. it really is bad. nothing remotely exciting about it at all, and shaft acts so cool without ever proving he's cool in the first place. so what if this is an update of a classic, u still have to estabish the lead character, and not assume everyone knows where he's coming from. this film was also violent but pathetically violent. a bad film through and through.
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Summary: Pathetic...
Review: I'm not going to repeat all the key words that hold together most of the reviews - blaxploitation's revival,etc. I just want to say that the leading man, Samuel L.Jackson made this film - not that it had a potential to be good - a really pathetic study in pretenciuosness and intellectual inferiority. The "cool cat" who is supposed to be sleek, sharp-witted and subtly menacing looks like a schmoe. The lady's offer - the only one in the whole film - looks prepaid. His presense is the opposite of commanding - his eyes are always looking elsewhere and on the rare ocassions he stares at someone he is jittering and fretting - quite visibly. The body language is very endearing. When Mr.Jackson chases some crook you almost wish his prey will stop and let himself be taken to the precinct - out of pity to the non-athletic guy of advanced age. An Armani outfit on the police officer's limbs adds a touch of idiocy to these scenes. Every time he attacks someone you can suspect that's purely personal - he overdoes it. These flaring nostrils, these eyes of the cornerered animal - not a big animal. His adversary is equally schematic. Chrstian Bale was borrowed to show his sneering yippiesh self, to look hateful, to kill for no reason. The American Psycho Returns! Evidently, that role will not peak the career of Samuel L.Jackson and Christian Bale is participating only because he is not so famous yet to turn down the invitation to act in an obvious schlock. That film is made just to fill in the studio's schedule, to make something with resonance, to target the generation which remembers the original Shaft and to attract the young ones who are curious what it was in their Dads' past. I regret spending 100 minutes watching that. If you feel abused at the early stages of Shaft do not wait till the redeeming finale - there will be none. Avoid that film by any means.
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Summary: Samuel is HOT!
Review: Better than the original from 1971. Like the first one, a detective is sent to track eyewitnesses to help him find the murder. The chase scenes are edge-of-your-seat jaw-dropping and exciting. SO fast it will blow you away BREATHLESS! Samuel L. Jackson stars as John Shaft, a detective assigned to track down a racist killer. In order to do so, he must track down eyewitnesses that will help him put the killer behind bars. This movie is more than you expcect. There are a few twists that keep you from walking out. It shows how much a cop has to go through when tracking down a murder. The car chases are so memorable you have no choice but to buy this movie. Richard Roundtree makes an appearence in this movie, just like in the original. I was told this movie was so good. It exceeded expectations. I expeted a movie so cool that I could think about it for 100 hours straight. I was wrong! I first saw it on June 16, 2000, the day it opened and never thought of anything else besides this movie ever since. Foul languge roll over to the audience at times, somtimes from Shaft himself and from crooks and other people. Some parents rushed the little ones out of the theatre just becuse they didn't want them to be scared of learn any of the adult language. You can take your kids with you, as long as they won't be scared or imitating the acts of violence. This is one of my most favorite movies. YOU GOTTA GO SEE IT! Buy it today, if you saw it before and like it. This is a movie to own for years to come. This is also a good movie to compare how Richard Roundtree looks now and how he looks in the original Shaft. He doesn't have too big of a role, but that doesn't make this a bad movie. Well, what are you waiting for? SEE THIS MOVIE!
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