I always enjoyed the 1970's era of crime/action films such as Shaft, Slaughter, Enter the Dragon, and Serpico. Action star Ron O'Neal plays an up and coming drug pusher named Priest who decides he wants to make one more big score before retiring from the drug pushing business by purchasing then selling 30 pounds of pure heroin with his partner in crime, a guy called Eddie, payed by Carl Lee.
Not impressive: I can appreciate the dress style in New York city in the 1970's was flashy and that the cars needed to be expensive, big and long. But seeing both drug pushers, Priest and Eddie in their combo suede and leather multi colored knee length coats, fedoras, and sunglasses , and driving their big flashy cadillacs with custom headlights did nothing to quell the general public's opinion of what black men aspired to be in the 1970's. This is what blaxpoitation desired to accomplish.
Impressive: The musical score by Curtis Mayfield and his on screen presence singing one of the films songs was superb. The two women in the film who played Priest's lovers, namely actress Sheila Frazier who played Priest's every day girlfriend named Georgia, and Priest's girl Friday named Cynthia, were both easy on the eyes. Last but not least how Priest outsmarts the big drug lord was a decent approach which made this crime/action film worthy of watching more than once.
I give Super Fly a decent 6 out of 10 rating.
Not impressive: I can appreciate the dress style in New York city in the 1970's was flashy and that the cars needed to be expensive, big and long. But seeing both drug pushers, Priest and Eddie in their combo suede and leather multi colored knee length coats, fedoras, and sunglasses , and driving their big flashy cadillacs with custom headlights did nothing to quell the general public's opinion of what black men aspired to be in the 1970's. This is what blaxpoitation desired to accomplish.
Impressive: The musical score by Curtis Mayfield and his on screen presence singing one of the films songs was superb. The two women in the film who played Priest's lovers, namely actress Sheila Frazier who played Priest's every day girlfriend named Georgia, and Priest's girl Friday named Cynthia, were both easy on the eyes. Last but not least how Priest outsmarts the big drug lord was a decent approach which made this crime/action film worthy of watching more than once.
I give Super Fly a decent 6 out of 10 rating.