They say this cat Shaft is a bad mother. Well, Samuel L. Jackson plays the cool, calm character of Shaft pretty well. It's the script I had a problem with. This is the same movie you'd see any night of the week on any given movie channel.
Shaft is full of drug slingers, crooked cops, rich brats, and all sorts of laughs.
Through all the smiles, you find Shaft keeping control over the city of New York while a rich white boy, executed annoyingly well by Christian Bale, is on trial for killing a black student. The story is completely obvious through and through. There is a cast of characters that are around to help Shaft get along. Vanessa Williams plays feisty cop Carmen. Busta Rhymes plays the rasta man, Rasaan, who drives Shaft from crime to crime.