Shaft

Shaft(1971)

R

06/23/1971 (US)Action, Crime, Thriller1h 40m

6.4

"The mob wanted Harlem back. They got Shaft...up to here."

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Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Ernest Tidyman

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John D.F. Black

Screenplay

Gordon Parks

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Part of the Shaft Collection

The Shaft trilogy is composed of action-crime films centered on an African-American police detective named John Shaft, who over the course of the films have altercations with a variety of crime. The films are characterized by their blaxploitation characteristics.

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A review by JPV852

7.0

Written on June 10, 2022

Richard Roundtree was great and Shaft as a character was absolutely amazing, everything else from the plot which was thin and performances by the supporting cast was a bit iffy. The pacing was also pretty slow and despite only being 100 minutes, felt a bit longer. Still, a good opening into the franchise. **3.5/5**