Rotten
[Covers] too many bases.
Robert Horton, Film.com
Shaft
Still the man, any questions?
2000 · 1h 39m · R
Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
John Singleton
Overview
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
Director and cast
- John Singleton Director
- Samuel L. Jackson as John Shaft
- Vanessa Williams as Carmen Vasquez
- Jeffrey Wright as Peoples Hernandez
- Christian Bale as Walter Wade, Jr.
- Busta Rhymes as Rasaan
- Dan Hedaya as Jack Roselli
- Toni Collette as Diane Palmieri
- Richard Roundtree as (Uncle) John Shaft
- Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Jimmy Groves
- Josef Sommer Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
67%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The surprise is that the movie doesn't just rely on Jackson. Shaft has everything.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Its sheer balls-out bravado is often brutally funny.
Charles Taylor, Salon.com
Rotten
Whenever he [Jackson] isn't on the screen -- which isn't much -- the movie flags.
Erik Lundegaard, Seattle Times
Fresh
Few stars of late have displayed more sheer joy in a mainstream project than Jackson does here.
Robert Koehler, Variety
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