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Shaft's Big Score is the first sequel to the super-hip 1971 original. When a pal of detective John Shaft is murdered in a bombing (and $250,000 goes missing), New York's coolest private eye finds himself caught in the middle of a power struggle between black and white gangsters over the numbers racket in Queens. Directed by Gordon Parks (who does a brief cameo as a croupier in an illegal casino) and written by Ernest Tidyman (both of whom made the original Shaft), this film lacks the pacing of its progenitor. Roundtree is at his best when he's questioning a woman he's just met about a suspect, while at the same time beguiling her into the sack (ah, those lazy, crazy days of the sexual revolution). The finale--a shootout in a cemetery, followed by a car-boat-helicopter chase through Queens and up the Harlem River--is preposterously drawn out: Shaft, impervious to machine-gun fire, winds up tripping, spraining his ankle and limping while running from the chopper; two shots later, he's sprinting like a halfback. Look for late Muhammad Ali-trainer Drew Bundini Brown as a wisecracking mobster. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com
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DVD Special Features:
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Languages in Mono: English, French, Italian
Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Dutch, Arabic, Portugese, German, Romanian, Bulgarian, English for the hearing impaired, Italian for the hearing impaired.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This movie has been called the best in the Shaft trilogy and I would not argue with that. Richard Roundtree excels as the pleasant gumshoe who is subjected to all sorts of punches and attacks but never seems any of the worse of it.
Bumpy and Willie are back giving yet again stirring performances and the plot is more complex that its predecessor.
If you have not seen it, then do not miss it.
A really good film.
Bumpy and Willie are back giving yet again stirring performances and the plot is more complex that its predecessor.
If you have not seen it, then do not miss it.
A really good film.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
this is simply the best of the Shaft movies. A good mix of action, thriller and adrenalin. Buy this product. You will not be dissapointed. The missing star for the sound. A failure mono-track. But that doesn't matter
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
only three black movies from the 1970`s are worth repeat viewing`s,COFFY with pam grier,BLACK GUNN with jim brown and this one,believe me I know,as I have seen them all,most just lived of the success of shaft,but with poor scripts and very bad acting,shaft`s big score has some great action scenes and one of the funnest parts for an old lady coming out of a lift with a hood trying to get into it,you can just feel the film crew in the background falling around with laughter,but watch it yourself to see what I am talking about,only down side is last 30 mins with a copter chasing shaft,how could they miss shooting him,and I thought that as a kid watching this in the 70`s,just as much as now,anyhow still great to watch after so many years.The last movie in the series is ok,ie shaft in africa,but is not in the same league.
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