Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 110
Fresh: 75 | Rotten: 35
With a charismatic lead, this new Shaft knows how to push the right buttons.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 7
With a charismatic lead, this new Shaft knows how to push the right buttons.
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Average Rating: 2.9/5
User Ratings: 62,057
This action drama puts a new spin on Shaft, one of the key "blaxploitation" films of the 1970s. John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson), the namesake nephew of the legendary private eye (Richard Roundtree), is a street-smart police detective who with his partner Carmen Velez (Vanessa L. Williams) has been assigned to a racially motivated murder case, in which a black college student was killed in front of a restaurant by Walter Williams Jr. (Christian Bale), the sociopathic son of a New York construction
R, 1 hr. 38 min.
Jun 16, 2000 Wide
Dec 12, 2000
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (136) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (79) | Rotten (35) | DVD (18)
Sleek, urgent, knowing, gleefully profane and above all ultra-cool, Shaft blows into the summer movie season like a breath of fresh air.
A guilty pleasure for adults and older teens.
Slim pickings are offered in terms of supplements, but some of these pickings offer a tad more substance than usual.
Shaft quickly splits into two different movies, and only one of them fully succeeds.
The primary focus of the film, and the real reason we're here, is to watch Samuel Jackson sink his teeth into the Shaft's trash-talking dialogue.
Samuel L. Jackson, who broke out of the pack in Pulp Fiction, fits the role and his leather Armani coat as though it's tailor-made. He's the man, and we can dig it.
Shaft is an unimpressive action film that is loosely based on the classic of the same name. I found it quite bad. Shaft didn't thrill me, and frankly, I was disappointed. I felt that the film could have been much better, and that it didn't anything to really entertain you. The thing is, Shaft has a poorly constructed
November 3, 2011
Super Reviewer
Renegade tough guy cop John Shaft sets his sights on an over-privileged racist who murdered an innocent man and skipped bail using his father's influence. The hardest thing to swallow about this film is a bald Shaft, and to be honest it seems like a bit of a cheek to use the name and Isaac Hayes' classic theme tune for
April 29, 2007
Super Reviewer
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