An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but it was suggested that another Listal member and, in fact, it had been years on my queue. Anyway, since it was suddenly available on Amazon Prime, I thought I might as well finally check it out. Well, as I feared, I really didn’t care at all about the damned thing. First of all, I have to admit that I have actually very little knowledge about Blaxploitation movies. Indeed, I still have to watch ‘Shaft’ but it’s in my queue and I did see ‘Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song’ but, to be honest, it didn’t really impress me, even if I do respect its legacy. On the other hand, I’m really familiar with the Wayans’s family parody business but, except for ‘Scary Movie’, all their other movies were just really weak, at least, as far as I’m concerned. Sure, I have to admit that I’m not actually a fan of spoof movies in general, I have even recently watched again ‘The Naked Gun’, a massive classic in this genre, and I still didn’t like it much. This one was actually the Wayans’s very first parody and, even though it did become a cult-classic, I thought it was so tedious though. Basically, it turned out to be a long series of clichés about black American people but since it was made by some black folks, then, I guess, it was okay if you find it hilarious. Well, I thought it was rather cringe-inducing. At least, Dawnn Lewis, in a very first role, was really lovely and I have to admit that Keenen Ivory Wayans was not bad playing a seemingly tough soldier who actually drank Pepsi and might still be a virgin. Anyway, to conclude, the damned thing was so lame and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except maybe if you are a die-hard fan of the genre. 

5/10