John Shaft, the man who built the foundation on which the
blaxploitation genre would be built, has had a weird after-life. From the two
Richard Roundtree-starring sequels to the classic original, to the 2000
sequel/reboot with Samuel L. Jackson, to today’s film which serves as yet
another sequel and another quasi-reboot. The original is a pretty solid
effort with an all-time greatest soundtrack, and the 2000 reboot was a bit
muddled but still quite entertaining, so maybe this one will turn out alright.
Well, considering all three films have the exact same name, let it be known
that the confusion with this mess only starts from there.
