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Decades removed from the original, this multi-generational Shaft struggles to keep its characters interesting -- or anything other than uncomfortably outdated.
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It stinks to heaven. Jun 15, 2019 | Full Review…
It stinks to heaven.
David Edelstein
Middle generation Shaft looks good roaring around in his souped-up Monte Carlo SS. It's too bad the characters as a whole didn't have a better vehicle. Jun 14, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Middle generation Shaft looks good roaring around in his souped-up Monte Carlo SS. It's too bad the characters as a whole didn't have a better vehicle.
Richard Roeper
Tim Story's update of the blaxploitation classic is shamelessly regressive. Male dinosaurs again walk the earth with misogynistic and homophobic impunity. These are the laughs, folks. Don't be surprised if they stick in your throat. Jun 14, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Tim Story's update of the blaxploitation classic is shamelessly regressive. Male dinosaurs again walk the earth with misogynistic and homophobic impunity. These are the laughs, folks. Don't be surprised if they stick in your throat.
Peter Travers
This movie is 'ruin your childhood' bad, right down to the hideous auto-tuned end credits song they chose to use instead of the original 'Theme From Shaft.' Jun 14, 2019 | Rating: .5/4 | Full Review…
This movie is 'ruin your childhood' bad, right down to the hideous auto-tuned end credits song they chose to use instead of the original 'Theme From Shaft.'
Odie Henderson
[T]his movie isn't smart enough to find any comic inspiration in the generation gap between Shaft Prime and Shaft Sr. It just makes them both Cranky Old Heavily-Armed Guys. Jun 13, 2019 | Full Review…
[T]his movie isn't smart enough to find any comic inspiration in the generation gap between Shaft Prime and Shaft Sr. It just makes them both Cranky Old Heavily-Armed Guys.
Chris Klimek
In its neediness to be liked, the new Shaft - the third of five films in the series to be titled, simply, Shaft - says everything and nothing. Jun 13, 2019 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
In its neediness to be liked, the new Shaft - the third of five films in the series to be titled, simply, Shaft - says everything and nothing.
John Semley
Although a bit out of place for its time, the fifth Shaft film packs enough gunfights, wisecracks, and thrills to make it a decent entry in the series. Samuel L. Jackson fans will not be disappointed, and neither will fans of Richard Roundtree. Aug 17, 2019 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Although a bit out of place for its time, the fifth Shaft film packs enough gunfights, wisecracks, and thrills to make it a decent entry in the series. Samuel L. Jackson fans will not be disappointed, and neither will fans of Richard Roundtree.
Grady Bolding
For those of us weaned on 1970s and '80s television, Shaft feels like dozing off on a shag rug - an unconscious nod into a long, open loop of nostalgia that conjures an entire, and unique, set of sounds and textures. Aug 14, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
For those of us weaned on 1970s and '80s television, Shaft feels like dozing off on a shag rug - an unconscious nod into a long, open loop of nostalgia that conjures an entire, and unique, set of sounds and textures.
Katherine Monk
The messages are bad and the movie is bad. It's plain and clear why the studio dumped this on Netflix internationally. Aug 8, 2019 | Rating: 2/10 | Full Review…
The messages are bad and the movie is bad. It's plain and clear why the studio dumped this on Netflix internationally.
Matt Hudson
The proceedings are still intermittently fun, especially because of Jackson who is clearly in his element here. Aug 5, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The proceedings are still intermittently fun, especially because of Jackson who is clearly in his element here.
Sameen Amer
The script feels like it's been in mothballs since the term "metrosexual" was still a big deal in the mid-2000s. Jul 24, 2019 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
The script feels like it's been in mothballs since the term "metrosexual" was still a big deal in the mid-2000s.
Tim Brayton
At what point did Shaft, which already became a saga with this third film, go from being an iconic action story to a sitcom? [Full review in Spanish] Jul 15, 2019 | Full Review…
At what point did Shaft, which already became a saga with this third film, go from being an iconic action story to a sitcom? [Full review in Spanish]
Pablo O. Scholz
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