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Movie Profile
Shaft
2000 ยท United States - John Singleton
NYPD Detective John Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) is called in to investigate the racially motivated murder of Trey Howard (Mekhi Phifer), committed by Walter Wade Jr. (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy real estate tycoon. Shaft briefly meets a potential eyewitness to the murder, Diane Palmieri (Toni Collette), but she disappears soon after and cannot be found for the trial. Wade Jr. is let off on bail and flees to Switzerland.
Genres:
Crime, Action, Thriller, Adventure
Release date:
2000-06-16
External links:
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Rotten Tomatoes
20 Critic reviews
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Peter Rainer
New York Magazine
August 07, 2004 read full article
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Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
May 19, 2004 read full article
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Globe and Mail
March 22, 2002 read full article
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Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
May 10, 2001 read full article
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Joel Siegel
Good Morning America
April 24, 2001 read full article
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Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee
February 14, 2001 read full article
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Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News
The story becomes a mess about halfway through.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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J. Hoberman
Village Voice
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
The surprise is that the movie doesn't just rely on Jackson. Shaft has everything.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
This new Shaft has the stuff to grab its audience in a big way, maybe even opening up a new franchise.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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David Germain
Associated Press
A slight but entertaining update.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Jay Carr
Boston Globe
Finally, someone has remembered how to remake a slick, bang-bang action movie.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Susan Stark
Detroit News
Sleek, urgent, knowing, gleefully profane and above all ultra-cool, Shaft blows into the summer movie season like a breath of fresh air.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Louis B. Parks
Houston Chronicle
It's fun and a good deal better than the fondly remembered original.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Jay Boyar
Orlando Sentinel
John Singleton may have been the youngest director ever to be nominated for an Academy Award, but I wouldn't exactly call him a natural-born filmmaker.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Steven Rosen
Denver Post
Unlike other summer movies, the action here mostly is as real and rugged as bullets and fists.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Kevin Maynard
Mr. Showbiz
The potency of [Jackson's] performance is almost enough to save this Y2K update of the black private dick from erectile dysfunction, but not quite.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Ebert & Roeper
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Toronto Star
January 01, 2000 read full article
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Mike Clark
USA Today
Shaft pushes our buttons which means it's something that has been next to unheard-of this year: reasonably rousing screen entertainment.
January 01, 2000 read full article
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