Shaft Reviews

I actually already watched this movie but it was at least a decade ago and since there was a really impressive cast, I wanted to give it a 2nd chance. And indeed, the cast was pretty neat (Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams , Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Busta Rhymes, Dan Hedaya, Toni Collette, Mekhi Phifer, Elizabeth Banks) and, even though I enjoyed Samuel L. Jackson who was the best possible choice to portray the most bad-ass black cop ever, I was above all impressed by Jeffrey Wright. Indeed, Wright is a very good character actor and he was easily the best thing in this flick. Unfortunately, the movie itself was not really good though. I mean, it starts with a promising flashy and steamy title sequence with the original Shaft theme but, as soon as the movie starts, it became a middle of the road cop feature with a rather pedestrian plot. Apparently, Samuel L. Jackson himself was disappointed by this movie and it was indeed a box-office failure. John Singleton, a once so promising director, had a great project here with some potential but, somehow, they didn’t take enough risks and the whole thing was sometimes actually rather boring. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of a very interesting cast, it is a rather average flick and I don’t think it is really worth a look.