Black Dynamite Explodes into Downtown Cinema
Scotty Walker
Issue date: 3/4/10 Section: Entertainment
Damn I haven't been this sick after seeing a movie since Glitter. I really don't think there is any better way to describe it. I don't know how Black Dynamite even got made, but unfortunately it did. I could already tell from the trailer that this was going to be one of those movie that is make it or break it the first twenty or thirty minutes of the film.
Michael Jai White has made some amazing movies but he flops around on the floor like a dead fish in this one. Black Dynamite tells the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. As far as I recall, there isn't any actual coherent story.. Well, actually, when his brother is killed, Black Dynamite sets off to find out who did it.
Along the way he discovers that the streets are being overrun with crack and there's a dirty secret behind the new Anaconda malt liquor. Eventually he makes his way from the streets to Kung Fu Island then all the way to the White House. I guess the point is that a film just doesn't have a rational story that anybody will care about.
The film is a horrible throwback to the blaxploitation films of the 70s like "Dolemite."
The film wasn't really funny throughout the first half but after that it seemed like it gave up and just laid down and died. By the end, the film had become overly repetitious. The intro to the character was forgettable.
That's the problem with this film you come in expecting a good laugh and you get the total opposite . Although I had high hopes for this movie I just couldn't stomach it anymore after the half way point I don't recommend this movie for anyone unless you want to take comfort in knowing that there is no possible way a movie worse then this could ever be made.
Michael Jai White has made some amazing movies but he flops around on the floor like a dead fish in this one. Black Dynamite tells the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. As far as I recall, there isn't any actual coherent story.. Well, actually, when his brother is killed, Black Dynamite sets off to find out who did it.
Along the way he discovers that the streets are being overrun with crack and there's a dirty secret behind the new Anaconda malt liquor. Eventually he makes his way from the streets to Kung Fu Island then all the way to the White House. I guess the point is that a film just doesn't have a rational story that anybody will care about.
The film is a horrible throwback to the blaxploitation films of the 70s like "Dolemite."
The film wasn't really funny throughout the first half but after that it seemed like it gave up and just laid down and died. By the end, the film had become overly repetitious. The intro to the character was forgettable.
That's the problem with this film you come in expecting a good laugh and you get the total opposite . Although I had high hopes for this movie I just couldn't stomach it anymore after the half way point I don't recommend this movie for anyone unless you want to take comfort in knowing that there is no possible way a movie worse then this could ever be made.
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