You know when a film comes from nowhere and completely blows you away with it's laugh out loud script, brilliant performances and a great visual style? Well Black Dynamite is one of those films, a brilliantly conceived spoof of Blaxsploitation movies of the 1970s that is not only one of the comedies of the last 10 years but one of the best spoof's since Airplane and Top Secret.
why is it so good? why don't you find out....
Blaxsploitation is a genre of films that are made exclusively for a black audience that star black actors and actresses and which are usually action or crime movies. Films such as Truck Turner, Foxy Brown, Coffy, Black Mama White Mama and Boss Nigger are the sort of titles that were part of this sub-genre. The usually had a revenge theme that usually concerns someone's brother or sister being raped or overdosing on drugs and it's the main character's plan for revenge that shapes the movie, Black Dynamite has that plot, a revenge plot, but where as the former films are serious in nature, BD takes that and gives it an hilarious spin. It throws everything from pimps and ho's, kung fu, the C.I.A and even president Nixon into the mix in an all out blend of comedy and action...
Black Dynamite (his real name) is a former CIA operative and all round badass who's brother is killed by the mob. BD turns to his long time friend Bullhorn for help in tracking down his killers. He finds out that his brother was working undercover with the CIA and is himself reinstated with his licence to kill in order to crack the case. He then meets up with the sultry sister Gloria who runs an orphanage for kids who are also addicted to crack. This angers BD who declares war on anyone selling drugs to the community. BD meets up with some militant blacks and together they attack a warehouse that is supposedly housing a large quantity of cocaine which turns out to be a drink called anaconda malt liquor and after a very cleverly written scene in which all of BD's crew go through greek mythology to get to the root of the case which leads them to an island where the fiendish doctor Wu is hiding and creating a syrum that causes black men's penis' to shrink. BD discovers that it goes all the way to the top and that president Nixon is responsible, Black Dynamite wants justice and will stop at nothing to get it...
The film was written, produced and stars martial arts actor Michael Jai White who brilliant as Black Dynamite, he is deadpan to the extreme and how he said some of those lines without cracking up is beyond me. Black Dynamite is seriously one of the coolest screen characters in a long time with his muscles and his guns as he dispenses street justice to the pimps and the pushers while being unbelievably cool.
The Rest of cast is rounded out by many well known black comedians and actors such as Tommy Davidson, Mykelti Williamson, Arsenio Hall and Brian McKnight. The have names such as Cream Corn, Chicago wind, Tasty Freeze and sweet meat.
The Direction is brilliant, it's shot with a haze to make it look like a low budget 70s film and contains brilliant zooms and some great editing.
The Comedy is spot on and has some very quotable lines that are incredibly well delivered by all involved.
The film throws almost everything but the kitchen sink into the plot including an assassin dressed as a pancake with a machine gun or a kung fu battle with Nixon, Black Dynamite is a fantastic film that echo's the past films of Zucker and Abrahams (Airplane) and kicks the ass of spoofs like Date Movie and Epic Movie.
My Final Verdict:
Now hear this, you jive turkeys, Black Dynamite is hippest, baddest, mofo on the block, You better check this sucker out or you gonna be sorry you missed Black Dynamite....Do you Hear What im saying you jive MotherFukkkkkkker!!!!
BACK DYNAMITE:
FILM: 9/10
why is it so good? why don't you find out....
!!!!!!!!!!!!!WARNING! MAJOR SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blaxsploitation is a genre of films that are made exclusively for a black audience that star black actors and actresses and which are usually action or crime movies. Films such as Truck Turner, Foxy Brown, Coffy, Black Mama White Mama and Boss Nigger are the sort of titles that were part of this sub-genre. The usually had a revenge theme that usually concerns someone's brother or sister being raped or overdosing on drugs and it's the main character's plan for revenge that shapes the movie, Black Dynamite has that plot, a revenge plot, but where as the former films are serious in nature, BD takes that and gives it an hilarious spin. It throws everything from pimps and ho's, kung fu, the C.I.A and even president Nixon into the mix in an all out blend of comedy and action...
Black Dynamite (his real name) is a former CIA operative and all round badass who's brother is killed by the mob. BD turns to his long time friend Bullhorn for help in tracking down his killers. He finds out that his brother was working undercover with the CIA and is himself reinstated with his licence to kill in order to crack the case. He then meets up with the sultry sister Gloria who runs an orphanage for kids who are also addicted to crack. This angers BD who declares war on anyone selling drugs to the community. BD meets up with some militant blacks and together they attack a warehouse that is supposedly housing a large quantity of cocaine which turns out to be a drink called anaconda malt liquor and after a very cleverly written scene in which all of BD's crew go through greek mythology to get to the root of the case which leads them to an island where the fiendish doctor Wu is hiding and creating a syrum that causes black men's penis' to shrink. BD discovers that it goes all the way to the top and that president Nixon is responsible, Black Dynamite wants justice and will stop at nothing to get it...
The film was written, produced and stars martial arts actor Michael Jai White who brilliant as Black Dynamite, he is deadpan to the extreme and how he said some of those lines without cracking up is beyond me. Black Dynamite is seriously one of the coolest screen characters in a long time with his muscles and his guns as he dispenses street justice to the pimps and the pushers while being unbelievably cool.
The Rest of cast is rounded out by many well known black comedians and actors such as Tommy Davidson, Mykelti Williamson, Arsenio Hall and Brian McKnight. The have names such as Cream Corn, Chicago wind, Tasty Freeze and sweet meat.
The Direction is brilliant, it's shot with a haze to make it look like a low budget 70s film and contains brilliant zooms and some great editing.
The Comedy is spot on and has some very quotable lines that are incredibly well delivered by all involved.
The film throws almost everything but the kitchen sink into the plot including an assassin dressed as a pancake with a machine gun or a kung fu battle with Nixon, Black Dynamite is a fantastic film that echo's the past films of Zucker and Abrahams (Airplane) and kicks the ass of spoofs like Date Movie and Epic Movie.
My Final Verdict:
Now hear this, you jive turkeys, Black Dynamite is hippest, baddest, mofo on the block, You better check this sucker out or you gonna be sorry you missed Black Dynamite....Do you Hear What im saying you jive MotherFukkkkkkker!!!!
BACK DYNAMITE:
FILM: 9/10
I agree with your review... I love this film!
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