A fun energetic wacky and fast moving blaxploitation movie that goes on to promote something that other blaxploitation movies didn't: the cleaning up of drug dealers from the black community, led by disco owner Rudy Ray Moore. As the Liberace of the blaxploitation genre, he's a delightfully flashy dresser, equally flamboyant in his personality too, and determined to bring down the street drug industry that got his smart young nephew Julius Carry to overdose on PCP.
There's an unintentionally funny scene where the Aunt Esther like mother of a female victim of PCP decides that she's going to use faith to clean up her daughter, and while the poor girl is having convulsions, her mother and a bunch of church ladies saunter around her bed as if she was possessed like Linda Blair in "The Exorcist". I couldn't help but laugh at the silliness of the moment. While the film isn't exactly the best acted (mainly due to poor sound that has the actors sounding forced), it's very watchable, and certainly well intended.
Moore isn't the greatest of actors, but he's got charm and sincerity, and he's not exactly playing "Othello". Hawthorne James is a great sleazy villain. Honestly have to say this is one of the best later blaxploitation movies because it grabs the viewer's emotions and doesn't let go. Carry shows great promise as Moore's nephew and I wish he had done more A grade work.
There's an unintentionally funny scene where the Aunt Esther like mother of a female victim of PCP decides that she's going to use faith to clean up her daughter, and while the poor girl is having convulsions, her mother and a bunch of church ladies saunter around her bed as if she was possessed like Linda Blair in "The Exorcist". I couldn't help but laugh at the silliness of the moment. While the film isn't exactly the best acted (mainly due to poor sound that has the actors sounding forced), it's very watchable, and certainly well intended.
Moore isn't the greatest of actors, but he's got charm and sincerity, and he's not exactly playing "Othello". Hawthorne James is a great sleazy villain. Honestly have to say this is one of the best later blaxploitation movies because it grabs the viewer's emotions and doesn't let go. Carry shows great promise as Moore's nephew and I wish he had done more A grade work.