I've always meant to watch this, but I never seemed to have the opportunity. I love Samuel L Jackson, and he's very cool in this.

The weird thing is that I had this creepy sense of déjà vu all the way through, and my wife kept looking up from her knitting and saying "I think I've seen this before". When I pointed out Busta Rhymes as the awful comedy sidekick, she said "We've had this conversation before", and I suddenly clicked that she was indeed correct. This movie is, apparently, extremely forgettable. I wonder if I'll ever see it again for the first time?

Christian Bale is fantastically hateable as the privileged white guy. Worth a watch just for his performance.

Also, the amazing soundtrack. It's like having sex in your ears. Perhaps that's the reason I forgot about watching the film?

A fun action movie with a good sense of humor about its own obligations. Jackson is a smart choice for Shaft, and the film pits him against two worthwhile villains, in Christian Bale's slimy rich racist, and Jeffrey Wright in a hilariously over-the-top performance that feels like a riff on every would-be "gangsta" who worships Pacino's Scarface. The script has a nice "goes-around, comes-around" plotting, even if it does devolve into a climactic car chase/shootout. Of the kinds of movies that are probably destined to be seen on cable, this is a cut above the rest.

I've always meant to watch this, but I never seemed to have the opportunity. I love Samuel L Jackson, and he's very cool in this.

The weird thing is that I had this creepy sense of déjà vu all the way through, and my wife kept looking up from her knitting and saying "I think I've seen this before". When I pointed out Busta Rhymes as the awful comedy sidekick, she said "We've had this conversation before", and I suddenly clicked that she was indeed correct. This movie is, apparently, extremely forgettable. I wonder if I'll ever see it again for the first time?

Christian Bale is fantastically hateable as the privileged white guy. Worth a watch just for his performance.

Also, the amazing soundtrack. It's like having sex in your ears. Perhaps that's the reason I forgot about watching the film?

I watched this today. I have no fucking idea why. My brain was so scrambled from studying database all night so I wanted to watch something cheesy and stupid. My head hurts even more now. Thanks, Nick Fury!

It gets 1 star for referring to someone's junk as the "LD".

What's the fairly enjoyable but unlikely to ever get watched again Cop film with a young Christian Bale as the villain?

Shaft!

Damn right.

A decent remake of a dusty classic; I particularly enjoyed seeing Busta Rhymes delivering some great lines.

I guess I liked this at a lot at the time, but that was probably primarily due to this simply being Shaft. I have no idea what I'd think of it now.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

One of the more decent remakes, or I guess it's more a reboot as Roundtree plays himself only older. Jackson is pretty good, but I much prefer the original guy that played the role myself.

Wright and Bale are fantastic as the film's scumbags, but really the entire cast is great. The score is lifted from the original series, but is really fun here too.

The action seemed a tad lame though. Like the bad guys got off far too easy in my mind.

Nice to see a very young Elizabeth Banks in there too!

First watch

I liked it.