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Black Dynamite
- Directed by: Scott Sanders
- Starring: Michael Jai White, Miguel Nunez, Obba Babatunde, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Kevin Chapman, Tucker Smallwood, Tommy Davidson, John Salley, Richard Edson, Chris Spencer, Arsenio Hall, Mike Starr, Darrell Heath, Nicole Sullivan, Buddy Lewis, Kym Whitley, Brian McKnight, Mykelti Williamson, Byron Minns, Bokeem Woodbine
- Genre: Comedies
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- Theater Release: 10/16/2009
- Video Release: 02/16/2010
- Run Time: 1hr 24min
Synopsis
The city streets explode into violence when "The Man" kills Black Dynamite's (Michael Jai White) brother in this seamless recreation of the blaxploitation classics of the 1970s. He was the best agent that the CIA ever had, but these days Black Dynamite only answers to one boss -- himself. When "The Man" ices Black Dynamite's brother, starts pumping heroin into the local orphanage, and floods the ghetto with a secret weapon disguised as common malt liquor, the car chases, gunfights, and shirtless brawls that follow prove wild enough to make even Dolemite green with envy.
The city streets explode into violence when "The Man" kills Black Dynamite's (Michael Jai White) brother in this seamless recreation of the blaxploitation classics of the 1970s. He was the best agent that the CIA ever had, but these days Black Dynamite only answers to one boss -- himself. When "The Man" ices Black Dynamite's brother, starts pumping heroin into the local orphanage, and floods the ghetto with a secret weapon disguised as common malt liquor, the car chases, gunfights, and shirtless brawls that follow prove wild enough to make even Dolemite green with envy.
Reviews
"[White is] a pretty amazing fight choreographer and martial artist...giving a marvelous and acrobatic display of the gifts of a born action star (Box Office)
"Cinematographer Shawn Maurer gives the film an appropriately high contrast and supersaturated style that makes it seem vintage." (Hollywood Reporter)
"[A]n enjoyable celebratory ode to a fiercely entertaining counterculture-inspired genre." (Los Angeles Times)
3.5 stars out of 5 -- "White and his collaborators, especially director Scott Sanders, must have watched and re-watched every blaxploitation movie ever made a hundred times to get the style, tone and production limitations of those old camp classics so unerringly right." (Box Office)
"BLACK DYNAMITE blends satire, nostalgia, and cinema destruction into a one-of-a-kind comedy high." -- Grade: A (Entertainment Weekly)
3 stars out of 4 -- "Technical expertise has been used to meticulously reproduce such details as oversaturated color scheme, bonus camera moves, smash cuts to closeups on big lines and dramatic camera angles." (Chicago Sun-Times)
"[N]o other homage to date has matched the zeal of this film..." (New York Times)
"[T]he clever new spoof BLACK DYNAMITE justifies its existence with amazing cultural specificity and uncanny attention to detail." -- Grade: B+ (A.V. Club)
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[A] fun, exciting, and clever recreation....It's self-aware but intelligent..." (Premiere)
"[White is] a pretty amazing fight choreographer and martial artist...giving a marvelous and acrobatic display of the gifts of a born action star (Box Office)
"Cinematographer Shawn Maurer gives the film an appropriately high contrast and supersaturated style that makes it seem vintage." (Hollywood Reporter)
"[A]n enjoyable celebratory ode to a fiercely entertaining counterculture-inspired genre." (Los Angeles Times)
3.5 stars out of 5 -- "White and his collaborators, especially director Scott Sanders, must have watched and re-watched every blaxploitation movie ever made a hundred times to get the style, tone and production limitations of those old camp classics so unerringly right." (Box Office)
"BLACK DYNAMITE blends satire, nostalgia, and cinema destruction into a one-of-a-kind comedy high." -- Grade: A (Entertainment Weekly)
3 stars out of 4 -- "Technical expertise has been used to meticulously reproduce such details as oversaturated color scheme, bonus camera moves, smash cuts to closeups on big lines and dramatic camera angles." (Chicago Sun-Times)
"[N]o other homage to date has matched the zeal of this film..." (New York Times)
"[T]he clever new spoof BLACK DYNAMITE justifies its existence with amazing cultural specificity and uncanny attention to detail." -- Grade: B+ (A.V. Club)
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[A] fun, exciting, and clever recreation....It's self-aware but intelligent..." (Premiere)
