Shaft

Shaft

Action • R • 2000 • 1 hr 39 min

5.5

6.0

Starring

Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Busta Rhymes

Directed By

Written By

Shane Salerno, Richard Price, John Singleton

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Genre

Action Adventure Crime Thriller

Release Date

June 15, 2000

User Reviews

Its Sam l. Jackson as shaft, what's not to like

Tyler Edwin Nestor

Badass and intriguing to a high degree. Plus Samuel L. Jackson fits into a role like this like a glove.

I think these movies are super entertaining, because both parts aren’t trying to be an action movie as such, but rather a funny joke.

Samuel L Jackson was hilarious in this, just some good old humour.

Let's cash in on nostalgia with a sub par forgettable movie. Put Sam Jackson in it. People like him.

Nothing original in this. Samuel Jackson and Christian Bale were both young in this. Just a run of the mill shoot em up.

Normally I prefer the older but in this case the new Shaft was better. Although Jackson did great in both.

Samuel L Jackson is perfect for the role in this entertaining homage to the 70's blaxploitation icon.

Doesn't compare to the original but as a self-aware satire of blaxpoitation is just so good.

I remember renting this a lot as a kid. Not sure it holds up, but there’s worse ways to spend your time. Sam L. Is great

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5.5 – Based on 1.1k ratings

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New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.

JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.

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