"Shaft"--It is my duty...to busta cap in its booty.

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My enthusiasm was high for this film during the first ten minutes, as it was clear that Shaft was a very smart dude, picking up clues quickly at the scene of a crime like Sherlock Holmes. Then it followed with about 30 min. showing Shaft's "street-smarts". But for the last hour, it just came down to which guy can shoot guns better and faster. Important plot lines and ideas seem to be dropped without any resolution. Samuel L. is great as the Shafted One, but attitude can only go so far. Christian Bale is his adversary, a racist murderer who is rich enough to stay out of jail, until Daddy pulls the plug on his financial support and he ends up being the lesser of Shaft's enemies (Why did he stick around the bar after he killed a person? Why did he come back to the U.S.?). This is also one of the more racially divisive films I've seen in the last decade, with whites, blacks, and Puerto Ricans butting heads (a throwback to the Blacksploitation genre; e.g., remember "Three The Hard Way"?). So overall, a mixed result. I had fun watching, at first. But it just lost sight of its opening vision and it could have been a whole lot more.

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Topic - "Shaft"--It is my duty...to busta cap in its booty. - TAFKA Steve 14:10:24 06/18/00 (0)

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