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Black Dynamite Manufacturer: Sony Pictures List price: $24.96 47 new & used available from $14.99. |
| 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 Stills from Black Dynamite (Click for larger image)
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Black Dynamite
Customer Reviews / Black Dynamite
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Black Dynamite is a tribute/satire to/of the Blaxploitation movies of the past. This is not for the kids or for the uptight. It's a fun movie with a disconnect from reality along the lines of Inglourious Basterds. |
| I had heard of this movie over the past year from a few people and word of buzz from Cons and such. I finally picked it up and was not disappointed! This movie captures this era of films so well and knows exactly how to poke fun at itself while still being a good movie.
I recommend this for any fan of the grind house vibe of films, back when film making was dirty and cheap! There is a lot of homages to older films and great comedy sequences! |
| DY-NO-MITE! DY-NO-MITE! I could sum up my entire review with this oft-repeated chorus (which accompanies virtually every moment the titular character walks on-screen). This movie is, in short, brilliant. I laughed until I cried, then I laughed until it hurt, then I laughed until I had to pause the movie because I was afraid I was going to pass out.
The plot? It's the same plot as almost any other blackspoitation movie, and the production is all the better for it. The corrupt Man is destroying black youth by pushing a powerful new drug. The only person who can help is a reluctant Black Dynamite, who only joins the fight when he suffers a personal loss. How does Black Dynamite help? By kicking one screen-full of ass at a time, repeatedly. Chow some popcorn, rinse it down with soda, repeat. It's all here, and it feels incredibly authentic while at the same time being fully updated. The film is shot on grainy 16mm. There are frequent jump-cute to simulate shoddy editing. There's violence, sexuality, and "bad" acting aplenty. Newer film techniques are used to add extra flavor in very subtle ways- an elderly lady answers a door and pretends she doesn't have the information Black Dynamite is looking for, so he kicks down the door, and wire-work is used to make her fly across the room in incredibly over-the-top fashion. This is a perfect synthesis of new and old techniques, as pretty much the only thing that's not gratuitously overused is wondefully-absent CGI. The film does lose a bit of steam in the final act, including the use of some small CGI effects, but it's otherwise phenominal. Michael Jai White is absolutely phenominal, in both look and ability, paying homage to classics like Shaft and Dolemite. His transformation to character is nearly perfect, so that at times I could swear I was actually watching an old Dolemite film. White clearly did a lot of physical training to make sure he was the complete package in this movie, and his physicality makes every fight scene an incredibly visceral experience. Everyone's acting is excellent(or terrible) as a scene requires, and the costumes are spot on. If you love "bad" movies (kung fu, MST3K), then this is probably one of the very funniest movies you'll ever see in your life. If you've seen and enjoyed movies like the original Dolemites and Shafts, then this is a must-have for your collection. It's unfathomable how Michael Jai White can keep proving his incredible talent in movies like this, and not get bigger roles. Two thumbs up, four stars our of four. |
Black Dynamite
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