Shaft

Shaft

Shaft

6.0/ 10

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2000

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99 min

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Action

Adventure

Crime

Thriller

Overview

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.

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Keywords

drug dealer

new york city

corruption

sibling relationship

based on novel or book

italian american

remake

revenge

murder

drugs

police officer

xenophobia

lucifer morningstar

african american

Trailer

Cast

Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson

John Shaft

Vanessa Williams

Vanessa Williams

Carmen Vasquez

Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright

Peoples Hernandez

Christian Bale

Christian Bale

Walter Wade, Jr.

Busta Rhymes

Busta Rhymes

Rasaan

Dan Hedaya

Dan Hedaya

Jack Roselli

Toni Collette

Toni Collette

Diane Palmieri

Richard Roundtree

Richard Roundtree

"Uncle" John Shaft

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Jimmy Groves

Josef Sommer

Josef Sommer

Curt Flemming

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Reviews(4)

5.8avg rating

John Chard

John Chard

July 6, 2015

7

7/10

I know cats who'd take out whole zipcodes for that kind of cheese. Remakes do work occasionally, case in point Shaft, John Singleton's update of the 1971 Blacksploitation movie that starred Richard Roundtree as the title character. Roundtree gets a part in this one as well, playing the uncle of S…

Wuchak

Wuchak

August 8, 2021

4

4/10

_**A black detective in Gotham desperately wants to nail a snooty racist murderer**_ The nephew of the original John Shaft is a detective in New York City (Samuel L. Jackson) where he tries to apprehend an arrogant racist killer (Christian Bale) by finding a key witness (Toni Collette) while dea…

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Chandler Danier

@chandlerdanier

December 28, 2025

8

8/10

How there are 2 movies in 2 years with the name Shaft is beyond me. Both of them have Sam in them. One of them is good. This one. This one is good. You should watch it. The other one sucks. Roundtree is in both as well. Roundtree is the best. Bale is good. Westworld guy is good. Especially when h…

K

kendallgibson

August 29, 2026

4

4/10

Let this review be a lightning rod for all the naysayers sayin' my reviews aren't legit. I believe this movie deserves a pole position for best sequel ever! (/s) The gist is Samuel L Jackson wields every power invested in him as a cop to go after Christian Bale (the bad guy) until the system fail…

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