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Samuel L Jackson fills Richard Roundtree's superfly shoes (but ditches the afro) as John Shaft - the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks - in this flashy update of the original blaxploitation classic from 1971. Christian Bale sneers it up as Walter Wade Jr, the well-connected scumbag who gets away with murder - until Shaft goes on a personal vendetta to bring him down. Roundtree appears in cameo alongside Jeffrey Wright, Toni Collette and Busta Rhymes. Boyz N The Hood director John Singleton calls the shots, his best one being to retain Isaac Hayes' unbeatable score. Can you dig it?

2000 · 1h 39m
Director John Singleton

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Samuel L Jackson fills Richard Roundtree's superfly shoes (but ditches the afro) as John Shaft - the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks - in this flashy update of the original blaxploitation classic from 1971. Christian Bale sneers it up as Walter Wade Jr, the well-connected scumbag who gets away with murder - until Shaft goes on a personal vendetta to bring him down. Roundtree appears in cameo alongside Jeffrey Wright, Toni Collette and Busta Rhymes. Boyz N The Hood director John Singleton calls the shots, his best one being to retain Isaac Hayes' unbeatable score. Can you dig it?

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Average 6.5
Reviews 115
Fresh 77
Rotten 38

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Studio
Paramount Pictures
Released
2000
Run Time
1 hr 39 min
Rated
18
Regions of Origin
United States, Germany
© 2000 by Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved

Languages

Original Audio
English, Spanish
Audio

English (United States) (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), French (France) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), Arabic , Bulgarian , Cantonese, Traditional , Chinese, Traditional , Czech , Danish , Dutch , Finnish , French (France) , German , Hebrew , Indonesian , Korean , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Russian (Russia) , Spanish (Latin America) , Swedish , Turkish

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Closed captions refer to subtitles in available languages with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.