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by Mike_Bracken  in Movies,  - Top 50, Jun 17 '00
Pros: Fun performance from Jackson and cast, keeps the spirit of the original
Cons: The scope of the script is too broad
Shaft (2000): New Deal Prodcutions/ Paramount Pictures
Rating: USA: R
Seeing as how many of the films I choose to write about here at Epinions are exploitation movies, it probably doesn’t come as a big surprise to any of my...
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by Stephen_Murray in Movies, - Top 100, Jun 22 '00
Pros: acting, cintematography
Cons: hackneyed plot, ethnic stereotyping
I remember when Pauline Kael first attacked the vigilante aspect of "Dirty Harry." I don't see how changing the color of the cop glorified for social cleansing makes the product any less fascistic. And the ethnic stereotyping, particularly of...
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by pmills1210 in Movies, - Top 500, Jun 19 '00
Pros: Good acting, good energy
Cons: Not at all original, not enough focus on Shaft
Could it be that Samuel L. Jackson is lining up work for the next several years? Perhaps. He's already on board to appear in the next two installments of the "Star Wars" series. If his "Shaft" is as successful at the box office as the...
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by phungus in Movies, - Top 100, Jun 18 '00
Pros: Everything
Cons: None at all - I loved it
Shaft is one of the better of the 'big summer movies' that I've seen so far. It has a great cast, great acting, an excellent soundtrack, and two crucial elements of storytelling that several other movies this year have forgotten about: character...
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by lansky2000 - Top 1000, Jan 01 '03
Pros: Noteworthy sequel to the illustrious 70's blaxploitation flick...
Cons: Crosses too many lines in the morality play...
(This is the first of a series on racial, religious and political exploitation in cinema....)
They say that cat Shaft is a bad motherfu...SHUT YO MOUF! Just talkin' 'bout Shaft...WELL WE KIN DIG IT!
Yep, sure can. They...
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by vandyke , Jun 21 '00
Pros: Escapist. Stylish and fun. True to the genre.
Cons: Strong Language. Racial violence. Drug references.
When a director is given the formidable task of recreating a film which, because of its historical precedent-setting unparelled success, doors were opened such that the director himself would probably not even exist; it's best to establish your film...
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by mattjoe - Top 100, Jun 29 '00
Pros: Action Film, keeps moving well, likeable good guy
Cons: only maginal character development for supporting cast
Today I made it to Shaft, having finally ridden myself of the bitter taste the original film left in my mouth. Figuring, this was SHAFT, after all, what better place to see it, than in the ghetto?
So, we took ourselves out to the 'hood,...
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by The_Wood - Top 1000, Jun 21 '00
Pros: Samuel L. Jackson
Cons: Everyone involved other then him
"Shaft" had a lot of potential. Take an already famous and awesome character from previous films and a TV series. Put in the most popular African American actor in films today. Everyone knows Samuel L. Jackson is a cool cat. When you look...
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by ishtarskye , Jun 18 '00
Pros: good action scenes, great action performances by cast
Cons: the unbelievable amount of foul language; racial slurs; graphic murder & intimidation scenes
I wasn't really familiar with the Shaft from the '70's, but I saw the previews for Shaft 2000 and thought that it looked like it would be a great movie and be something that I could really get into.... Boy, was I disappointed. I'll...
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by protoguy , Jun 26 '00
Pros: Sam Jackson and Jeffrey Wright
Cons: The rest of the cast gets the shaft
If Samuel Jackson were not the star of this movie, I feel I would have to give it an all appendages down vote. Aside from Peeples, the drug dealer/bad guy, there really are no other actors in this movie.
Oh sure, Vanessa Williams is in it....
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by janesbit1 - Top 200, Jun 20 '00
Pros: Samuel Jackson, tightly worked plot, Faithful to the spirit of the original, Entertaining fare
Cons: No depth (but it's summer)
There's a point in the latter part of Shaft, where Samuel Jackson states the racial dilemma we feel about his character: "Too black for the uniform; too blue for the brothers." While the movie never gets much below the surface, it...
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by BrickHaus , Dec 14 '00
Pros: Butt-kicking Sam on screen!
Cons: I'm jonesing for a sequel
He’s a bad Mutha’…shut your mouth…let’s just talk about Shaft. As fun as the original flicks, this blockbuster starring Samuel Jackson is sure to be hit with many audiences. As you can imagine this film starts out with the Oscar winning theme song...
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by cntaur5, - Top 100, Jun 23 '00
Pros: Samuel L. Jackson is a wonderful actor.
Cons: Same old same old stuff.
If you missed out on the 1974 version of Shaft staring Richard Roundtree, who played the role of black private eye John Shaft you can check out the 2000 version of Shaft staring Samuel L. Jackson with Director John Singleton attempting to ...
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by myoptical , Apr 18 '01
Pros: Presented a strong African-American male role model
Cons: Missing the frequent, old-school sexual references/innuendos, etc.
The Legend of John Shaft. Songs were sung in his praise. A cultural icon of his times for Black men. A maverick cop whose unorthodox methods worked where others failed. It ain't easy trying to live up to a legend. Samuel L. Jackson is an...
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by NoniaBidnis , Jul 02 '00
Pros: Samuel L. Jackson, Jeffrey Wright's acting
Cons: weak story, trite and mediocre
Now really. There are 150 epinions of this movie already on this site. If that isn't enough for you to get an idea of whether or not to spend $7 and go see this movie, um, well, perhaps you could find a psychologist that's on your insurance plan. I'm...
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