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15/06/2000 Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller 1h 39m
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Still the man, any questions?

Overview

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.

  1. John Singleton

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Samuel L. Jackson

    John Shaft

  2. Vanessa Williams

    Carmen Vasquez

  3. Jeffrey Wright

    Peoples Hernandez

  4. Christian Bale

    Walter Wade, Jr.

  5. Busta Rhymes

    Rasaan

  6. Dan Hedaya

    Jack Roselli

  7. Toni Collette

    Diane Palmieri

  8. Richard Roundtree

    "Uncle" John Shaft

  9. Ruben Santiago-Hudson

    Jimmy Groves

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2015-07-06
I know cats who'd take out whole zipcodes for that kind of cheese.

Remakes do work occasionally, case in point Shaft, John Singleton's update of the 1971 Blacksploitation movie that starred Richard Roundtree as the title character. Roundtree gets a part in this one as well, playing the uncle of Samuel L. Jackson's title character, John Shaft.

It's the perfect role for Jackson, lashings of cool and menace, on his bulky shoulders dose the film easily rest. Plot finds Shaft turning in his badge after the law proves useless to let racist murderer Walter Wade Junior (Christian Bale a sneering...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$46,000,000.00

Revenue
$107,626,125.00

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