Description
An all-star cast led by Michael Jai White is featured in this 1970's-style blaxploitation action fiilm about the legendary super crime fighter "Black Dynamite." The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.

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When drug dealers take out his kid brother, ex-CIA agent Black Dynamite ( Spawn 's Michael Jai White) makes like a karate-chopping dynamo to track them down. Armed with a .44 Magnum, a set of nunchucks, and a sexy 'stache, Big D starts out in the City of Angels, where his buddies Cream Corn ( In Living Color 's Tommy Davidson), a hustler, and Bullhorn (co-writer Byron Minns), a club owner, offer to lend a hand. The deeper Dynamite digs, the more endangered his life becomes as he uncovers a conspiracy to keep the black man down by flooding the streets with malt liquor and filling the country's orphanages with smack. Since the smooth operator has a way with the ladies, he also enlists Gloria ( I Am Legend 's Salli Richardson-Whitfield), a socially-conscious soul sister, to aid in his clean-up campaign. Director Scott Sanders and White, who co-wrote the script, collaborated on 1998's Thick as Thieves , and their chemistry shines through. If the supporting cast can be a little wooden, White gives Shaft 's Richard Roundtree a run for the money with his cool-cat charisma. Set in 1972, Black Dynamite doesn't just act like a movie from the Superfly era, it looks and sounds like one, too, courtesy Adrian Younge's old-school funk score, Shawn Maurer's 16mm cinematography, a cartoon credit sequence, and some carefully choreographed boom mic appearances. And dig those crazy cameos: Arsenio Hall as Tasty Freeze, Brian McKnight as Sweet Meat, and NBA veteran John Salley as Kotex. --Kathleen C. Fennessy



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Date: 09/06/2010
Summary: Black Dynamite
Rating: 5
My son wanted this movie for his birthday. He was happy to receive it. I can't say how it was because I didn't see the movie. He has seen it before and thought it was one he wanted for his collection. So I guess it is a good one.

Date: 08/11/2010
Summary: Funniest spoof since "Airplane"
Rating: 5
This film is hilarious. It hits all the tropes of blacksploitation films. Go ahead a buy it, because if you watch it once you'll want to own it.

Date: 08/07/2010
Summary: My new favorite movie! Dynomite!!
Rating: 5
I haven't watched that many movies more than once, but I have seen Black Dynamite at least 20 times now. It is so hilarious I laugh harder every time.
Watch the extra features on the DVD cause they give you insight on some parts of the movie that weren't meant to be funny, but came out funny by accident.

Date: 07/27/2010
Summary: Awesome Movie
Rating: 5
This movie is freaking hilarious. It was originally written to just be a joke trailer, but then it evolved into something great. Extremely quotable and just all around entertaining. It drags a little in the middle but otherwise worth your time. POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!!

You know a movie is good when the First Lady gets pimped slapped.

Date: 07/25/2010
Summary: Couple of really funny moments, BUT...
Rating: 2
I expected a little more from this movie. They did a pretty good job recreating the look and feel of a 1970s movie, but it just never quite makes the grade as a finished product. I won't give any of it away, but there are some good scenes, while others are just too staged, drawn out, or over the top.