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	Shaft (2000 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shaft is a 2000 movie that was directed by John Singleton.
		The movie stars Samuel L. Jackson as John Shaft, Toni Collette, Vanessa L. Williams, Jeffrey Wright, and Christian Bale.
		The actor from the original movie, Richard Roundtree, also briefly reprises his role as John Shaft, the uncle to Jackson's character.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shaft_(2000_movie) (124 words)

	Shaft (1971 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shaft is a 1971 blaxploitation film which tells the story of a detective, John Shaft, who travels through Harlem and to the Italian mob in order to find the missing daughter of a fl mobster.
		The movie was adapted by Ernest Tidyman and John D.F. Black from the novel by Tidyman.
		Shaft's character embodied standard movie-detective coolness, but brought it to a new level by adding pronounced flness.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shaft_(1971_movie) (305 words)

	Shaft (2000): Reviews
		The 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.
		The movie's primary narrative weakness is that its racism plot points seem ripped from the headlines of a "Geraldo" newsletter and stretched into a string of terribly executed car chases.
		Shaft is a decent popcorn movie and Jackson rises to the responsibility of appearing bigger than life.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/shaft (784 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Entertainment Guide
		Shaft is given a second chance when the murderous little brat returns to the States for no discernible reason other than advancing the plot.
		Shaft's bravura is rendered worthless by a stupefyingly misguided final twist.
		SHAFT (100 minutes, at area theaters) is rated R for violence, drug use and language.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/entertainment/movies/reviews/shaftkempley.htm (503 words)

	Qwipster's Movie Reviews - Shaft (2000)
		SHAFT isn't that far removed from the original in that it was relatively small in scope, dealing with two-bit thugs fighting over who gets to be the big fish in the pond.
		In this we have Det. John Shaft investigating the killing of a young fl man seemingly at the hands of a punk rich white kid, and who uses his daddy's vast wealth and power as a judge to hide behind the law.
		SHAFT does come close to being as entertaining as the original, and does have it's moments every once in a while, but for the most part it just is too pedestrian to take things to a llevel of genuine excitement.
	www.qwipster.net /shaft2000.htm (485 words)

	Shaft Movie Review
		John Shaft (Samuel L Jackson) is a cop "too fl for the uniform and too blue for the brothers".
		"Shaft" avoids the trap of, say, the last two "Batman" movies where one headlining villain stole the spotlight and the other was relegated to grunt status.
		Shaft is fl, yes, and the film does not trivialise or dismiss the fact.
	www.killermovies.com /s/shaft/reviews/e90.html (1091 words)

	Movie Review - Shaft (2000) - eFilmCritic
		This Shaft, nephew to Richard Roundtree’s original (he turns up as his original character in a cameo), has been updated for the new millennium and now sports full length leather Armani trench coats (how he affords this on a cops salary is not explained).
		Sadly, the famous Shaft sex life, one of the raisons d’etre of the original films, is given no more than passing mention (this is also not explained).
		Movie was kind of boring, but the theme song was thigh.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/85980 (723 words)

	Shaft - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		Our first glimpse of John Shaft is of him striding toward the camera, Armani coat blowing in the wind, while Isaac Hayes's indelible theme plays over the credit sequence.
		The one misstep in Shaft's character is the lack of women and sex.
		Yet the audience is clearly supposed to cheer for Shaft as he mows down the Latino drug lords with upwards of 41 bullets.
	www.tollbooth.org /2000/movies/shaft.html (969 words)

	Shaft Greg's Preview - Yahoo! Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		That's certainly a strong opening going against three other movies; maybe not a true blockbuster opening (that would've been $25 or more), but I'm guessing this will be strong enough for Paramount to announce their sequel plans soon (around which time, a preview page for Shaft 2 should be posted).
		Shaft is about "owning the streets", but that's something he does not just through violence, but all parts of his being; including his libido.
		The movie would be just a lot of fluff if it didn't have a good story, solid direction, and a credible supporting cast, and Shaft has all that.
	upcomingmovies.com /shaft.html (1245 words)

	MMI Movie Review: Shaft (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shaft was a big deal to kids of the 1970's.
		More troubling is the legacy of the tragic college student & the fate of his grief-stricken mother who watches her son's rich killer escape bail twice with the help of his father's millions.
		Shaft, Carmen & Rasaan try hard in the year 2000 & they may even return to see the light of day in further updated adventures with Uncle John.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/shaft-2000.html (378 words)

	Juris Publici - April 2000 - Movie Review - Shaft
		The movie keeps the classic Shaft theme and uses many of the techniques of a 1970s detective show with an early 21st century sensibility.
		Vanessa Williams plays a secondary role as Shaft's backup, but her character is never really developed, which is a waste of Ms.
		He liberally uses the f-word, and he is not as sensual as the Shaft of the 1970s, who had the libido of James Bond.
	law.richmond.edu /jurispub/2000/Summer2000/Summer00-Cecil4.htm (486 words)

	dallasobserver.com \| \| Film \| Getting the Shaft \| 2000-06-15
		Strip the movie of its brand name, mute the Isaac Hayes theme song that's still icebox cool, and John Singleton's Shaft doesn't even qualify as a distant cousin to Gordon Parks' 1971 original--much less Ernest Tidyman's 1970 novel, on which the franchise is based.
		But Shaft, on the scene, can't help but notice the blood on Walter's hand; the audience, in turn, can't help but notice the lawn jockey over Shaft's shoulder (a rare sly moment).
		Fact is, Roundtree could probably make a viable Shaft even now: At 57, he's only six years older than Jackson, and he exudes a calm, knowing cool in the few seconds he does get on screen.
	www.dallasobserver.com /issues/2000-06-15/film.html (1252 words)

	Review: Shaft (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shaft is really just a series of slickly filmed action sequences dangling off a thin plot and held together by the force of Jackson's charisma.
		Shaft is the NYPD detective in charge of the investigation of a race killing.
		Shaft makes the arrest, but the well-connected Wade is back on the streets in short order.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/s/shaft.html (764 words)

	DVD Review: Shaft(2000)
		The film revolves around Shaft trying to hunt down a spoiled rich kid named Walter Wade (Christian Bale), who murdered a young fl man and got away with a small bail, who then skips out of the country.
		Unlike the earlier film, Jackson's Shaft doesn't flirt with too many women (an issue that was argued about during production) and mainly just keeps it going with the action sequences as Jackson is the baddest of the bad, intimidating and funny at the same time.
		If you're already a fan of this update of the movie, it's worth picking up on DVD as although Paramount hasn't provided a great amount of extras, the audio/video quality is very good.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews2/shaft2000dvd.html (800 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Shaft"
		The brutality increases as the movie goes on and Singleton falls into the right-wing sensibility that action movies are prone to.
		"Shaft" says that the laws and courts and the restrictions on police protect the scum and that the only way to clean things up is for a lone man to break the rules.
		So is the woman Shaft has to protect, a bartender (Toni Collette) who witnessed the killing and who has been threatened and warned to keep her mouth shut.
	salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/06/16/shaft/index.html (926 words)

	Shaft - Movie Preview
		Even now, almost 30 years later, John Shaft is a hero in the neighbourhoods across 110th St. “I’ll be walking down the street in New York City,” says Roundtree, “and wherever I’m going, people are screaming out ‘Shaft!’ I get so much love.
		But a remake of Shaft has been a dream of Singelton’s since before Rosewood was even completed: news first broke that he was trying to set it up back in the autumn of 1996.
		Shaft is a cool, contemporary presence - a man who moves easily among many different worlds.
	www.preview-online.com /sept_oct00/feature_articles/shaft (482 words)

	Mike Legeros Movie Review - Shaft (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		SHAFT is a sit, albeit a crowd-pleasing one for the first hour.
		In the prologue, for example, Shaft's obsessive interest in Bale's character is never explained.
		That said, I dare any summer movie to deliver as loud a laugh as what's heard when Jackson agrees to "serve some" to a female bartender.
	www.legeros.com /moviehell/2000/shaft.html (471 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Shaft (Widescreen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The story, which pits NYPD detective John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson), the nephew of the original private dick, against a rich, white killer played by Christian Bale, is basically a pretext for a series of showdowns between Shaft, the rich kid, and anyone else who gets in the detective's way.
		The new Shaft isn't that much of a ladies man either, and although he apparently does possesses the unspecified "LD", his amorous activities are limited to innuendo.
		Shaft 2000, is another movie that takes the name, and uses only trace elements of the original concept, to then create something that is pretty far removed from the original.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004Z1FX (1307 words)

	Three Movie Buffs Review Shaft (2000) Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa L. Williams, Jeffrey Wright
		Shaft is a sleek, smart remake of the early seventies blaxploitation classic.
		The real joy of this movie, aside from the action of which there is plenty, is watching the actors bring to life these vivid and descriptive characters.
		Shaft seems to tower over those around him, from the moment he first appears, pushing his way through the crowd.
	www.threemoviebuffs.com /reviews/shaft.htm (503 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Shaft
		Jackson plays his nephew, NYPD detective John Shaft, a different hero for a different time, fighting against hate crimes and drugs.
		Shaft's only allies are a colleague (Vanessa Williams) and a streetwise buddy (Busta Rhymes).
		On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, "Shaft" is a stylish, slick 6.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos/shaft.htm (302 words)

	Ziggy's Video Realm: Samuel L. Jackson stars as Shaft (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shaft had one of the coolest looking trailers of any of the movies due out for the summer of 2000, which goes to show that you can’t always judge a movie by its trailer.
		Even the original Shaft wasn’t as obsessed with ethnicity as this film is; quite frankly, it would have been a better movie if it followed the example of the first film and concentrated on telling a good story without hitting the audience over the head with a solid steel race card every five seconds.
		I have nothing against pointless sex in movies (not at all), but if the only way you can find an excuse to get large, bare breasts on the screen is as a background shot for the opening credits, then you might as well just skip it.
	www.reelcriticism.com /ziggyrealm/reviews/shaft2000.html (1448 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shaft [2000]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		NYPD detective John Shaft is on a personal mission to commit Walter Wade Jr for a racially-motivated murder.
		Shaft is the fast-paced, hard hitting, and often hilarious action thriller that delivers explosive entrtainment from start to finish.
		Shaft has to be one of the best DVD transfers on the market the picture is crisp and the 5.1 mix from the theme tune is excellent.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000058E3D (882 words)

	Movie Review - Shaft (2000) - eFilmCritic
		"Shaft" is certainly a Summer movie no doubt - TONS of style and only a little substance, but relies more on character than explosions.
		The story lends itself to any time period and aside from maybe the mobile phones, could be set twenty years ago or twenty years from now.
		Bale does OK as the stiff brat rich kid, kind of reprising his "American Psycho" role but with less of a cold calculating menace, while Wright is quite cool as the neighbourhood drug boss.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/87012 (468 words)

	Shaft
		This time, Samuel L. Jackson (Deep Blue Sea, The Red Violin) is John Shaft, the nephew of the original Shaft (Richard Roundtree) who also appears in the film.
		This could be because of some of the many rumored problems between people during the making, but most of it is because while the story translates well, it means nothing without some of the meaning behind it.
		Essentially, Shaft is still sticking it to the man, but no one is really sure why.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/shaft.html (429 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Shaft (2000)
		Shaft begins with New York City Police Detective John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson—Rules of Engagement, The Negotiator) arriving at the scene of a brutal attack on a young fl man outside a ritzy bar.
		As his I've-got-your-back fellow cop, she seems the closest thing to a constant female presence in Shaft's life (remember the song "He's a complicated man, but no one understands him but his woman").
		When you hear Shaft utter a line like, "It's Giuliani time!" you know you are in for some serious people and property damage.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/s/shaft.htm (1405 words)

	Archived April 1st, 2000 Live Auction - Wooden Shaft Golf Clubs & Golf Collectibles - Catalog of Wooden Shaft Golf ...
		Shaft is an old replacement and the grip an old sheep skin.
		Shaft is stamped "T Morris, St. Andrews, N B" and in large letters "GCSL BAL".
		A remake Calamity Jane with wood shaft, a circa 1950's Nicoll "Gem" putter, a Macgregor "Go-Sum" Niblick and a Kroydon Jigger.
	www.golfforallages.com /auctioncat_apr1.htm (13475 words)

	Amazon.com: Shaft (1971): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The script finds Shaft tracking down the kidnapped daughter of a fl mobster, but the pleasure of the film is the sum of its attitude, Roundtree's uncompromising performance, and the thrilling, Oscar-winning score by Isaac Hayes.
		Caught in the "middle", Shaft negotiates a deal for all parties involved-"Bumpy" will pay $10,000 a man [a very 'on target' critique of the indemnity policy paid in Vietnam to American soldiers killed, 80% of whom were fl] for "Ben's" activist "soldiers" to battle the mob.
		Shaft gets it on with a white 'one-night stand' gal, implicitly a frequent activity of his; does his "woman", totally under-developed character played by a capable actress, accept this infidelity or is she "clueless"?
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0790743752?v=glance (1286 words)

	Shaft movie info - dvds - John Singleton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With Samuel L. Jackson in the starring role and John Singleton directing, "Shaft" is a new approach to one of the great film icons of the 1970s.
		I know that Samuel L. Jackson made more movies in the last decade than anyone, and maybe that's why this movie is so ordinary.
		Before seeing the 2000 version with Samuel L. Jackson in the title role, there was no way anyone could ever make me believe that Samuel L. (my name for him) would be convincing as Shaft.
	www.mooviees.com /1673-shaft/movie (533 words)

	Shaft (2000) Comprehensive Movie Review
		In this movie Shaft (samuel l jackson) is a cop or P.I in new york city.
		The story is based on Shaft finding a rich playboy kid that murdered a innocent fl man. Shaft seeks justice for the wrongfull murder and racist crime against his nationality.
		"Shaft" is an immature macho movie infested with phallic symbols such as loads of guns and shooting, foul language and a cocky attitude on the part of every male starring in it.
	www.allwatchers.com /Topics/Info_5643.asp (250 words)

	Shaft
		I went into "Shaft" with trepidation, but I secretly hoped that the old Singleton would rear his head.
		Shaft quits, and attempts to bring Wade to justice on his own terms, but with the help of his former associates.
		Sure, all of the usual action movie clichés are there, but they were done with such style as to be forgivable.
	www.movie-vault.com /reviews/cbUTOXsjpWykQWYc (513 words)

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