Black Dynamite: Review By Bane. Ferguson

Here and then a rare gem comes about, in a form as a comedy, an action film, a drama, Science Fiction, you name it! Once every so often a film of the highest order of being evolutionary in being stupid, dim witted, rampancy, satirical and just as fully blown madcap flick. Here is Black Dynamite one of those gems that push the boundaries of film and audience expectation. Blaxploitation films have disappeared, dispersed, why? Due to the unfathomable arcane of it all! Here its revolutionized, brought back with its hip soundtrack, desp*cable dialogue, awfully hilariously poor acting, marvellously clichéd stunt fights, very grainy and very old fashioned, stylish, pimped, full of other usual continuity errors of boom mikes being in shots. Namely this is all deliberate, but to the films uses, in being a comedically frontal film and just being a solid homage to this pick pocketed maestro of a film. Michael Jai White heads the films as Black Dynamite, out to avenge his brother's death, and to stop heroin being trafficked into orphanages and further on kicking ass, having sex with 6 fine ( copy right T.M- Max Ardron) ladies at one time and just kicking ass!

Scott Sanders not only knows what a blax-movies needs but also what he needs to evolve into his film, political correctness (argh!) sex (yarg!) and just the platitude of being in the right frame of what is a blaxploitation movie! ("You Dig it"!?) The film was thought up by the main lead himself- you may recognise him from The Dark Knight as one of the main mob bosses putting word out for the Jokers head- who thought back to those movies, the rare necessities of them, the actual roots of it being written by white people themselves, exploiting black people, but not in all the wrong ways, a necessity to look at it as being a hold your ground film for Black People. They were made for black urban audiences, to feature soul music and funk ever in a feature film, made in poor turkey covered taste, that were enjoyable but just limp, but now just very laughable and very appeasing films to audiences and not very branched out fan boys , changing cinema as it is today in many a way or form. It holds so much, it's a genre of its own accord, as with 'Grindhouse' this film captures all that was represented in 1971's Shaft (a solid film par to having this film made, an inspiration more or less). In 1997 Quentin Tarantino took aim and fired out a master class film that both held his own style and format and also being 'key' with the usual algorithms of a blaxploitation movie. Though in form it wasn't set out to be homage as much this is a replica of previous films but just a classy sassy thriller. Here it's all out to be a homage, not a spoof, a satire, doing all the wrongs and rights, going into the orb of being ridiculous, old and authentically with standing, the cinematography, the set designs, the lenses, the wide shots, the whole squatness it holds in front of you.

Though not as much a film on its own accord, with nothing but a simplistic unwise story, it's something that is an art form, what with the awfully 'brilliantly thought through' editing that resembles the usual tautness of previous 70's movies, the editing being skimmed, jumped, and holding both many flawed sequences and plaintive and obvious costume changes and stunt doubles, you can marvel at the crews benevolence, the directors masterful eye for comedy and just going out to make a plain old blax movie!

Take a scene where one of the pimps and studs takes a whack at a co star playing a villain and actually (presumably-is what the Director wants you to think, basically an underlined idea, film within the film motif idea- what usual happened in blax films was jump cuts where the actors are out of character or do general mistakes, miss costly trimmed in editing-here authentically recreated) hits the actor shocked goes wha!- cut to a new actor to take the hit, sly meticulous things such this mind bogglingly unclear but clear sighted to fans of film alike just marvel at!

It's fun, silly, on the ball, genuine, vastly ludicrous, but still a very highly esteemed very well crafted film. Black Dynamite 2 Coming Soon! (Optimistically)