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Shaft

2019

Tim Story

Samuel L. Jackson, Regina Hall, Jessie T. Usher, Richard Roundtree ...

5.4

2,802

Thriller. Action JJ, aka John Shaft Jr. (Usher), may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ's youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft (Jackson) agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem's heroin-infested underbelly. And while JJ's own FBI analyst's badge may clash with his dad's trademark leather ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"The new 'Shaft' is an upgrade that’s also a downgrade (...) [It is] a rudely conventional, entertainingly junky badass-for-the-megaplex action comedy (...) The movie is product, but by the end you want to see this team again."	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"This reboot of a reboot manages to resurrect stray moments of '70s-era, go-it-alone impudence and irreverence that still carry a certain appeal."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"The plotting is so leaden and the fire fights so pro forma that not even the sight of the three Shafts in action can keep this film from sinking under its own weight."	NEG
United States	Kristen Page-Kirby The Washington Post	"[It] embraces the camp of each of its predecessors while adding a timely new depth (...) It’s a fine, fun and funny movie, one that most people will probably enjoy, regardless of race (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	William Bibbiani IGN	"Story takes a classic movie franchise and drains it of all the action, sex and topicality that made it worth revisiting in the first place."	NEG
United States	Candice Frederick The Wrap	"As much as 'Shaft' tries to confront its own stereotypes from the past, it refuses to truly disassociate from them."	NEU
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"Shaft is cool, stylish, and confident. Which is to say that he is everything that the new 'Shaft' isn’t (...) It doesn’t help that the plot is a mess"	NEG
United States	Steve Davis Austin Chronicle	"A movie seemingly programmed by algorithms calculated to produce mindless entertainment (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Soren Andersen Seattle Times	"A failure of imagination and originality (...) What we have here is a standard-issue comedy-tinged crime thriller indifferently directed by Tim Story (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG

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