- Studio: Paramount Pictures
- Release Date: Jun 16, 2000
- Starring: Christian Bale, Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams
- Summary: A murderer tries to kill the only witness to his last crime. Shaft (Jackson) and his sidekick (Williams) are trying to catch the murderer.
- Director: John Singleton
- Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 33
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Mixed: 14 out of 33
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Negative: 5 out of 33
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88With Jackson leading the way, Shaft has style, punch, and street cred. It's a hot cool update.
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75The new movie, like its predecessor, is a crime thriller with a moral viewpoint, an eye and ear for street color and a taste for macho movie fantasy.
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60It's a bad sign when audience enthusiasm peaks during the credits sequence.
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30This may be the first movie that runs under two hours and yet has no attention span. Characters are abandoned and picked up; narrative threads dissolve before your very eyes.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 0 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 1 out of 1