If I were black, I'd find this sort of stereotyping particularly offensive because it suggests the black culture is inherently defined as related to white people. It's kind of fun. Unfortunately, I think it's probably because we have absolutely no expectations and only because it's made so carefully . The original Shaft was a silly god damned movie that was near unwatchable. I have to admit that I was pretty amused by the whole thing, which is either a testament to the level of brain damage all these shitty summer movies have been inflicting on me since we started this accursed website, or it means that Shaft 2000 is pretty decent, all in all.
Shaft is, all in all, pretty decent.
More or less, I hate Samuel L. Jackson. That being said, I found him fairly likeable in Shaft 2000 . Yeah, shoots the shit out of me, too. If this movie does as well as I think it's going to, then there's probably going to be a sequel, and as the end of Shaft 2000 really leaves open the possibility that the new J.S. and old J.S. working together from now on, I'd hope they'd actually exploit it and use Roundtree a lot more. This John Shaft spends as much time kicking black ass as he does white ass, and seems to have an odd respect for women.