"Black Dynamite" is a wonderful action-filled comedy parody of blaxploitation films of the 1970s. ..and I strongly recommend it. In many ways, the plot to "Hit Man" is similar but since it's not a comedy, there are no laughs. But what is unforgivable is that there really isn't much in the way of action and the film is amazingly dull. Even with the nudity (and there is a LOT of gratuitous nudity), the film is much duller than it should have been and it seems to take forever for the hero to spring into action!
Bernie Casey plays Tyrone Tackett, a tough guy who is from Oakland but arrives in Los Angeles looking for answers concerning his brother's murder. But it's amazing how slow this all is and you keep expecting this anti-hero to spring into action and deliver some much needed butt-kicking. In the meantime, again and again, Tyrone appears just about to go ape on gangsters...but doesn't! In particular, two jerks keep threatening him and attacking him...but he doesn't deliver justice. Of course, he eventually does SOMETHING...but it just seems to take forever...and by then I was incredibly bored. I know Bernie Casey can be a fine actor in films...but here it's as if he's on downers...lots and lots of downers.
The bottom line is that there are many wonderful blaxploitation films which clearly deliver on the action, such as "Truck Turner", "Shaft", or "Black Caesar"....so why watch this one?
By the way, there is a lot to offend people in the film...not just the nudity but the violence, language and a semi-realistic dog fight make this a movie which is a tough sell to many.
Bernie Casey plays Tyrone Tackett, a tough guy who is from Oakland but arrives in Los Angeles looking for answers concerning his brother's murder. But it's amazing how slow this all is and you keep expecting this anti-hero to spring into action and deliver some much needed butt-kicking. In the meantime, again and again, Tyrone appears just about to go ape on gangsters...but doesn't! In particular, two jerks keep threatening him and attacking him...but he doesn't deliver justice. Of course, he eventually does SOMETHING...but it just seems to take forever...and by then I was incredibly bored. I know Bernie Casey can be a fine actor in films...but here it's as if he's on downers...lots and lots of downers.
The bottom line is that there are many wonderful blaxploitation films which clearly deliver on the action, such as "Truck Turner", "Shaft", or "Black Caesar"....so why watch this one?
By the way, there is a lot to offend people in the film...not just the nudity but the violence, language and a semi-realistic dog fight make this a movie which is a tough sell to many.