Black Dynamite Follow-Up Outlaw Johnny Black Doesn't Give You 'Oooooo'

Stuck between satire and revisionism, Michael Jai White's spiritual Black Dynamite sequel is a lost Western. Our Outlaw Johnny Black review:

, which seems happy enough to exist , but struggles to do so with crackshot precision.

White trades furious roundhouse kicks for deadeye marksmanship as Johnny Black, positioned as a Blaxploitation hero in the Wild West. He’s a renegade hellbent on vengeance against Brett Clayton for killing his preacher daddy, but plans go on hold when Johnny ends up in Hope Springs impersonating Reverend Percy .

, doubly so if you’ve been tracking the team’s tireless efforts to get this film into theaters. White’s direction wavers between shooting too straight and yucking too slapstick, with hardly any control over the pacing between elements. That said,is an otherwise charming ode to Black-led Westerns of the Fred Williamson and Jim Brown era through costume design and cameos—and that’s what’s so frustrating.

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