Director Tim Story’s Shaft update remains shamelessly regressive. Peter Travers reviews
Jessie T. Usher as John "JJ" Shaft, Samuel L. Jackson as John Shaft and Richard Roundtree as John Shaft, Sr.It’s as if a half century of progress in racial and gender politics never happened. That’sdirector Tim Story’s updated, shamelessly regressive take on the “black private dick who’s a sex machine to all chicks,” three generations of Shafts take center stage. Jessie T.
Usher plays JJ, the youngest Shaft, a metrosexual who works as an FBI analyst and is so appalled by the violent, pussy-crazed, homo-hating, un-woke antics of his Harlem-based daddy that he’s thankful his upbringing was left to his enlightened mother Maya . Granddaddy Shaft, played by Richard Roundtree who originated the role in the Gordon Parks’ 1971 blaxploitation classic, is the block from which his son was chipped. JJ wants nothing to do with either of them. Until he does, that is.
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