Day Fifty-Three: Black Dynamite

BLACK DYNAMITE

Starring:
-Michael Jai White
-Tommy Davidson
-Arsenio Hall
-Nicole Sullivan (as Patricia Nixon)
-James McManus (as Tricky Dick Nixon)

Directed by: Scott Sanders

Screenplay Credits: Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, & Scott Sanders

MPAA Rating: R


Kung Fu. Outlandish clothes. Cool cars. Hookers. Ill-timed explosions. Women in various stages of undress. Numchucks. Grainy film quality. Man heels. Bead curtains. Starsky & Hutch/porn music. Wood paneling. Leather jackets. Shaky camerawork. Strange line delivery. Bloopers. Rhymes. Seriously, there is so much rhyming in this film you’ll think you’re trapped in some ghetto Dr Seuss time warp.

If you aren’t thinking about a certain infamous disco decade, there is either something wrong with you or you have not lived.


If you watch this movie, you would swear you were seeing one of the original blaxploitation blockbusters. I hate to constantly remind myself that this is a new release; it’s that good. Some dialogue is corny and poorly delivered. Other lines are so perfect you’ll be scrambling to write them down and desperate for an excuse to slip them into everyday conversation. I give you my word, BLACK DYNAMITE is totally on the level.

Also, Michael Jai White’s body is, in a word, beautiful. And you’ll have plenty of time to gawk at it when he’s standing around in his shorts. I just felt the need to pay a small tribute to his rippling pectorals.


BLACK DYNAMITE is afro-tastic! Can you dig it?


FINAL GRADE: A-


Off in search of DYN-O-MITE! DYN-O-MITE!,

M.