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	Shaft (2000 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shaft is a 2000 movie that was directed by Scott Singleton.
		The actor from the original movie, Richard Roundtree, also briefly reprises his role as John Shaft, the uncle to Jackson's character.
		The director of the original Shaft, Gordon Parks, appears in a cameo at the Lenox Lounge party as "Mr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shaft_(2000_movie) (151 words)

	Shaft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shaft (1971 film) or the 1971 novel that it is based on
		John Shaft, the title character of the above films.
		Shaft (dance act), a dance music act who scored a 1999 hit with a cover/remix of (Mucho Mambo) Sway
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shaft (194 words)

	Shaft (2000)
		To an extent, this film is pro-cops (nothing wrong with that, but it seems an odd position for a fl filmmaker to take in a season when the NYPD is under fire for shooting an unarmed fl man 41 times).
		In fact, this film seems to advocate removing some of the limits we place on the police, particularly when it comes to the use of violence: Shaft is more effective after he quits the police because he can use violence with impugnity.
		Shaft could have saved a bunch of effort, a bunch of lives, and a bunch of property damage if he had just shot the bad guy at the outset--but, of course, he's the hero.
	www.tranquility.net /~benedict/shaft2000.html (1409 words)

	Shaft [2000] Video at Shop Ireland
		Film favorite Samuel L Jackson stars as the wisecracking policeman 'Shaft', whose unorthadox but winning ways of law enforcement make him a formidable force in his police department.
		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.
		If only the film matched up to the quality of the disc.Samuel L Jackson is able to play this part with his eyes shut and the appearence of Richard Roundtree as his uncle has some novelty/ nostalgia attached to it.The plot is standard formula and offers nothing new.
	www.shopireland.ie /video/reviews/B000059ZB5 (716 words)

	Shaft - reviewed. So many movies, so little time - The Dead Projectionist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Otherwise, this "Shaft" is Singleton's alone, inlaid with touches of gritty violence that feel reminiscent of his "Boyz N The Hood." But knowing Singleton's rep as one unafraid to show the face of inner city crime this isn't too surprising.
		Here's the spaghetti bowl of a premise: Shaft (Jackson) is a maverick (surprise) NYPD detective sheltering an eyewitness (Toni Collette of "The Sixth Sense") to a violent murder committed by one Walter Wade, Jr., (Christian Bale).
		Shaft wanting her testimony to put Wade away, and the bad guys wanting to rub her out.
	www.dead-projectionist.com /reviewDetail.asp?ID=69 (657 words)

	Shaft (2000): Reviews
		Shaft (Jackson) and his sidekick (Williams) are trying to catch the murderer.
		Shaft has everything --smart writing, shrewd direction and a handful of performances that are first-rate by any standard.
		Shaft is a decent popcorn movie and Jackson rises to the responsibility of appearing bigger than life.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/shaft (778 words)

	SHAFT (2000) - DVD
		The original Shaft took it as a given that its hero was on the wrong side of the racial divide, and his exploits as a fl man in a white man's world were transgressive simply because he did what he chose and didn't care who knew it.
		The current film sacrifices this virtue by chaining him to a specific incident and a specific group of people; ironically, the desire to right a white-on-fl wrong is what keeps the film from grasping beyond a certain level.
		Worst of all, the ending of the film does nothing less than render the rest of the film completely redundant, making all of the hard work and danger come to naught as the satisfaction of seeing the villain stand trial is wiped away in a matter of seconds.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/shaft2000.htm (1457 words)

	WAC \| Press Release \| 2000 \| Juneteenth Film Festival
		In this film, Seale returns to the places where he and his colleagues were assaulted by the police, and he tells how some of them were killed in front of his eyes.
		Preminger's film is one of her best, causing Time magazine to observe that she "holds the eye like a match burning steadily in a tornado." With Harry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll.
		This film documents the life of a young Khoi Khoi woman who was taken from Cape Town to London in 1810 and exhibited as a freak across England.
	www.walkerart.org /archive/8/B1A391F193D54A856130.htm (1425 words)

	Review: Shaft (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		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)

	Shaft (2000)
		Anaemic remake/update of the 1971 hit Shaft, which despite a directing credit for African-American political filmmaker John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood, Higher Learning) and the foregrounding of its elements of racial politics is less challenging than its predecessor as a portrait of fl America.
		Shaft (2000) is about average action thriller fare, replete with violent death at every turn, explosions, car chases and plenty of hard-assed one-liners.
		Okay, so Shaft (1971) was just a detective movie, but it was a distinctive one at the time in which it was made.
	homepage.eircom.net /~obrienh/sft2.htm (904 words)

	FILM REVIEW: Shaft 2000 - Discussion Boards
		Shaft returns to the mean streets of New York City to take down a rich white man's son, who's killed a fl man, and thought he could get off scott free.
		True to the original movie, Shaft is a ladies man, engaging in casual sex with every women he encounters.
		Shaft navigates and manipulates all the dark denizens of the underworld to perfection, getting them all together in one place, while he scores, and escapes.
	www.pleasedrivethrough.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=96 (394 words)

	Shaft (2000)
		Shaft is back and he's still "The Man." Good cops, bad cops, drug-crazed low lifes, racists killers and a whole lot of action are packed into John Singleton's new film.
		Shaft comes up against a spoiled rich kid (Christian Bale - American Psycho) with a mean streak.
		Shaft has to find her before the killer does, so she can come back to testify.
	www.projections-movies.com /reviews/shaft.html (331 words)

	Shaft (2000)
		Shaft is one cool dangerous man. He takes s*** from no one, on either side of the law.
		In the original, Shaft is lady-killer, sleeping with at least three different women in the course of the movie.
		Shaft wears a variety of fl leather jackets, all very stylish (some of them Armani!).
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=641 (1183 words)

	Shaft (2000)
		Shaft himself certainly kicks butt, but there are too many underdeveloped characters around him.
		John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) nephew of the original Shaft (Richard Roundtree in a cameo) is a police detective turned private eye.
		Shaft is one big bad "motherlover." One couldn't say that for the rest of the cast.
	www.moviepie.com /rent/shaft_2000.htm (545 words)

	Shaft (1971) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Trivia: Ron O'Neal (Superfly (1972)) auditioned for the role of John Shaft but was turned down because, according to the producers, his skin "too light".
		Written and filmed at a time of extreme social unrest throughout the U.S.; the movie shows how Jon Shaft uses his private detective status and ethnicity to retrieve the kidnapped daughter of a notorious Harlem kingpin.
		Shaft proves there was more meaning to these films, and ends up as a classic display of substance with style.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0067741 (482 words)

	The Films of John Singleton: Shaft (2000)
		The reason for this is the same one that explains the film's connection with moviegoers far beyond the target African-American audience: the title character of John Shaft.
		This fact also explains why John Singleton's Y2G revival of John Shaft is as enjoyable as it is. Much like the film that started the franchise, this Shaft's plot doesn't score points in the originality department, but the energy level and smooth attitude distinguishes it from standard crime thrillers.
		However, the focus of the film lies on his same-named nephew (Samuel L. Jackson), who, as the film begins, is a cop whose take-no-crap demeanor constantly leaves him at odds with his superiors.
	www.godamongdirectors.com /singleton/shaft.html (1187 words)

	Maryland Film Festival 2000
		The Maryland Film Festival is proud to present the 25th Anniversary screening of the oft over-looked classic, Cooley High.
		The film burst onto the film scene in 1975 with a hip Motown soundtrack in the midst of the "blaxpolitation" era of films.
		It wasn't an action film like Shaft, Superfly or the films that made Pam Grier famous, Cooley High was a movie that was a teen-based comedic drama with heartfelt emotion starring Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Glynn Turman and Garrett Morris of Saturday Night Live Fame.
	www.mdfilmfest.com /2000/filmdetail/cooley.html (420 words)

	Shaft
		The 2000 film Shaft starring Samuel L. Jackson as John Shaft, a New York City cop turned rogue after the legal system failed to appropriately prosecute a white man guilty of a racial murder is, by itself, a decent flick.
		In this Shaft, I found Christian Bale and Jeffrey Wright’s performances as the major villains to be believable, as was the New York City setting, and Hip Hop artist Busta Rhymes surprised me with a remarkable acting performance that I hadn't expected.
		Despite such a ground-breaking portrayal of Shaft by Richard Roundtree in 1971, his presence and impact on Shaft (2000) was minimal because he didn't just age thirty years, he forgot how to be Shaft after thirty years.
	hugereviews.com /Movies/shaft.htm (879 words)

	Shaft (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In my mind, SHAFT could be updated and remade into really a great flick.
		SHAFT had potential, but Singleton’s rendering simply suffers from all the same flaws that most Hollywood blockbusters do - a lame script that doesn’t stop pulling on the plot clichés for a second.
		But this could’ve been the standout film of the summer, if not the year, and it wasn’t.
	home.earthlink.net /~joeythorne/shaft.htm (386 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Reviews \| Shaft (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		This is the worst film I've ever seen; poor dialogue, predictable plot, and worst of all, some of the most blatant negative ethnic stereotyping imaginable.
		Assuming that Shaft needed remaking, this is probably as good as it could get.
		From the opening seconds of one of the most famous film themes of all time you know you are in for a slick treat with plenty of gunplay and streetwise language.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Reader_Review/0,,-84051,00.html (240 words)

	Shaft 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		What I mean by this is that in the original Shaft, Shaft was THE MAN, with all the cheesy lines and ability to turn any situation to his advantage.
		Still despite the lack of cheesy lines and random sex scenes, this film has been well made and was worth the watch.
		There is speculation that the sequel to Shaft 2000 is nearly complete already and should be on our screens early next year sometime.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /thealtplym/reveiws/shaft.htm (146 words)

	National Film Registry, 1999
		The list is designed to reflect the full breadth and diversity of America's film heritage, thus increasing public awareness of the richness of American cinema and the need for its preservation.
		And, ominously, more films are lost each year -- through the ravages of nitrate deterioration, color-fading and the recently discovered 'vinegar syndrome,' which threatens the acetate-based (safety) film stock on which the vast majority of motion pictures, past and present, have been preserved," said Dr. Billington.
		For each title named to the Registry, the Library of Congress works to ensure that the film is preserved for all time, either through the Library's massive motion picture preservation program at Dayton, Ohio, or through collaborative ventures with other archives, motion picture studios, and independent filmmakers.
	www.loc.gov /film/nfr2000.html (879 words)

	Shaft (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Williams does reasonably well as Shaft's police backup and Busta Rhymes does not annoy in the role of the wise-cracking driver.
		There are horrible seams in this film that hobble the project and keep it from being as smooth as Isaac Hayes' theme song.
		For example, Shaft appears to quit the police force at the very beginning of the film, but then two years later he's helping with a bust.
	www.needcoffee.com /html/reviews/shaft.htm (504 words)

	Amazon.com: Shaft: DVD: Christian Bale,Samuel L. Jackson,Vanessa L. Williams,Philip Bosco,Toni Collette,Zach ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Manhattan-set film is highlighted by excellent performances, dynamic action scenes, and witty one-liners (Jackson's Shaft: "It's my duty to please the booty"--although the line's deceptive: there's a surprising lack of sex in the film).
		To solve this crime Shaft is going to have to enlist the aid of his mentor/uncle, also named John Shaft (Richard Roundtree reprising his role from the original films), together with some other friends and people that owe him favors, Shaft will stop at nothing to ensure that justice has been served.
		With director John Singleton swearing that this "Shaft" would not be just a rip-off of the movies from the 70's, but would in essence be a sequel set in the present day, and featuring a new Shaft.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004Z1FX?v=glance (2121 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Shaft [2000]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Manhattan-set film features excellent performances, dynamic action scenes and witty one-liners (Jackson's Shaft: "It's my duty to please the booty"--although the line's deceptive: there's a surprising lack of sex in the film).
		The story, in which Shaft investigates the murder of a young African American, is without suspense, since from the start the audience knows that rich white boy Walter Wade (Christian Bale) did the deed and that Shaft is going to kick his ass, big time.
		Look for a cameo by the original Shaft's director, the legendary Gordon Parks, and fans of the original should note that a still stunningly handsome Roundtree briefly appears as Jackson's uncle.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000058E3D (840 words)

	Shaft (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Plot Outline: New York City police detective John Shaft (nephew of the original 1970s detective) goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.
		You went from "Boyz N the Hood" (one of the best movies EVER made by a freshman director) and "Higher Learning" (flawed, but still a good film at the end of the day) to a movie that was unnecessary, excessive, and profoundly stupid.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Shaft (2000)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0162650 (340 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Shaft (2000) / DVD-Video
		Samuel L. Jackson is Shaft, the man and the movie.
		With Uncle John Shaft (Richard Roundtree reprising his original role) as mentor, it's no surprise that today's Shaft is the coolest dude and the hottest action around.
		I remember hearing about a possible remake of "Shaft" and thinking that there was no way anybody could ever get the character right in a remake.
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=19161&partner_id=29346865 (441 words)

	Mediajonez.com: FILM: Movie Review - Shaft (2000) Samuel L. Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Actually, for continuity with the original series of Shaft movies (1971's Shaft, Shaft's Big Score in '72, and Shaft in Africa in '73), Jackson plays the nephew of the first Detective John Shaft, portrayed by Richard Roundtree in the original films as well as in this one.
		In this particular saga, Shaft is on the hunt for a frightened witness (Vanessa L. Williams) to a race-related murder so he can thwart wealthy suspect Walter Wade Jr.'s attempt to buy his innocence in court.
		Samuel L. is as smooth as it gets in his overlong fl leather jacket and bald head, which is a stark contrast the afro and beige turtleneck of his predecessor.
	www.mediajonez.com /film/review-shaft0101.html (425 words)

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