Synopsis
Shaft is stickin' it...all the way.
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Directed by John Guillermin
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Richard Roundtree Frank Finlay Vonetta McGee Neda Arnerić Debebe Eshetu Spiros Focás Jacques Herlin Jho Jhenkins Willie Jonah Adolfo Lastretti Marne Maitland Frank McRae Zenebech Tadesse Avelio Falana James E. Myers Nadim Sawalha Thomas Baptiste Jon Chevron Glynn Edwards Cy Grant Jacques Marin Nick Zaran Aldo Sambrell
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Shaft goes to Africa, and goes full camp in the process.
The similarities between John Shaft and James Bond have never been difficult to identify. But this third installment feels like an undisguised attempt at fully rebranding the character as the Black 007. Give Richard Roundtree credit; he shows more skin than any Bond Girl ever did, and provides ample evidence that Shaft was packing more heat than Connery, Moore, or any of their ilk ever had in their wildest dreams.
All hints of hard edged neo-noir styling have departed the series with original director Gordon Parks. Instead new headman John Guillerman brings the same type of cheesy entertainment value that characterized his later blockbusters The Towering Inferno and King…
"No wonder they call Africa the 'Mother Country'" -John Shaft,
- Complex Top 50: boxd.it/1w5pa
Who needs a gun when you've got a big fucking stick and know how to use it... am I right?
Gone is director Parks and in comes British director John Guillermin, it shouldn't have worked but it did. Big time! Thanks to a dynamite script from Oscar winner Stirling Silliphant. This tough as nails adventure film has detective John Shaft going after a slavery ring that exploits African men for slavery in Paris, France. The pay is good in this new case but here his sense of justice and vengeance is gonna get tested. The angry speech he lays down on the French cop is powerful shit. And when Shaft takes a car to meet our main bad guy my adrenaline was pumping! The ending is just fucking badass. Roundtree really lays the smackdown on these slaver fuckers. I love this one.
pretty much the Emmanuelle In America of the Shaft series and the most true exploitation film of the bunch; Roundtree fights with his dick out, talks far too much about the clitoris, a dead dog is kicked for no reason, every woman is naked for most of their screen time - are *you* man enough?
1973heehee #16
"How long is your phallus, Mr. Shaft?
My what?
Your cock?
Baby, by now it shrunk down to 20 inches."
New York private eye John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) has one last 70s cinema outing, in his most violent and ambitious adventure yet. Shaft is recruited to go undercover to dismantle a human trafficking ring in Africa that smuggles immigrants into France.
Violence and nudity is ramped up quite a bit in this second sequel. It has intentions for sure, highlighting the white exploitation of blacks, human trafficking, though seems to make a bit of a hash of confronting female genital mutilation, turns out you can just say no...not sure it really works like that. Anyhoo it's interesting to…
In 1973's Shaft in Africa, New York's baddest Brother Man does indeed go to the Motherland, but he also goes to France too - proving that he's quite the Harlem globetrotter in this third and final instalment in the original trilogy of films.
In fact, this is the closest the Shaft series got to resembling a James Bond movie, which is pretty ironic given that the Bond film that year - Roger Moore's debut, Live and Let Die - was getting in on the blaxploitation act. Contemporary reviews of late seem to want to dismiss Shaft in Africa's Bondian tropes as an example of the franchise jumping the shark, but in actuality, Shaft with his handsome good looks, his potent…
As the third entry in the original Shaft trilogy, Shaft in Africa also feels like the most different of the three given the drastic change in location despite also keeping a lot of the Blaxploitation touches that makes these three notable films. Honestly however, I don't really love the way that this movie completely removes Shaft from the New York dwellings of the first two and it seems to make a conscious effort to shift him into being a James Bond-type action hero (complete with silly gadgets) rather than a private detective. In those terms, it sort of works but it's still the weakest of the three for me since it's a fairly formulaic adventure that compensates for the thin story by throwing in more action. Still, Richard Roundtree is great again and Shaft in Africa overall is a pretty fun Blaxploitation film, if one that's an unnecessary departure for the character and series.
Basically anytime Shaft interacts with a person 40 seconds later they die some horrible death. Globe trotting Bond type adventure with Roundtree seems his most comfortable with the character.
Gordon Parks gets replaced by John Guillermin and Shaft gets send to Africa into something that's close to a low effort international spy adventure than a detective movie. This is not terrible, but there's a reason there were no 4th Shaft movie, as things are over stretched and by the numbers and the scenario actually plays against some of the earlier movies strengths. Roundtree remains fine and Guillermin can be trusted with some competent put together stunt action..
Шафта нанимает африканский принц чтобы тот вычислил банду работорговцев в Африке.
Третий фильм про частного детектива получил нового режиссёра (далеко не последнего) и свежее направление, амбициозно двинувшись от криминала с нуаром к Джеймсу Бонду, правда не очень понимая, как это реализовать адекватно.
Вместо запоминающегося супер злодея тут унылые работорговцы, для победы над которыми не требуется элитных навыков, что и подтверждает убожество их тактики - подсылать к Шафту убийц по-одному, то киллера в костюме бабушки-уборщицы, то самого зловещего белого в автобусе, заполненного африканцами. Но и план героя - прикидываться местным, одев тряпье, не сильно лучше, поскольку изъясняться он может только по-английски и вообще любой, кто к нему подходит уже знает его имя. Так что плохо выглядят все, в том числе и…
Shaft in Africa (1973) is a movie I recently watched on HBOMAX. The storyline follows Shaft as he investigates an underground slave trade occurring in Paris. He tracks the people responsible for the trade all the way back to Africa where he plans to bring them to justice the Shaft way.
This movie is directed by John Guillermin (The Towering Inferno) and stars Richard Roundtree (Shaft), Neda Arneric (When the City Awakes), Frank Finlay (Lifeforce), Vonetta McGee (Repo Man), Spyros Fokas (The Jewel of the Nile) and Frank McRae (License to Kill).
This should have been a non-Shaft movie and its own independent film, it would have been so much better. It did have some cool elements. I did like…