A much slower, down-to-earth entry in the blacksploitation genre, but I enjoyed it for those reasons. Interesting to have a coke dealer as the main character, and O'Neal manages to make Priest into one of the most... human characters I have seen in this type of film. Too bad it never really peaks and the ending comes quite suddenly, leaving the viewer a bit dissatisfied.

The soundtrack is better than the movie, but the movie is still a pretty solid entry in the blacksploitation pantheon.

It's really bad but in a somewhat entertaining manner. Except for the score, which is actually good.

Blaxploitation classic about Priest, a pimp and coke dealer looking to make one big score so he can retire from his criminal life. In his desperation to make the deal happen, he gets even more deeply involved with a bunch of crooked cops. Priest is not a nice guy, but he plays his cards right and sticks it to the man. Hilarious jive talk, giant pimp hats, and the super funky soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield is simply awesome.

The movie's decent enough on its own, Priest is a terribly interesting terrible person and it's all nice and voyeuristic following him around, but the politically charged rock n' soul soundtrack album by Curtis Mayfield is what's essential here.

Once you get over how awesome Priest and his chest-hair are the film gets dull and tedious. Script is hardly worth the paper it was written on. The filmmaking here is highly experimental, but amateurish. Score nails it really hard though. You dig?

Great OST.

Great music, that's about it.

If 'Foxy Brown' simply follows the blaxploitation formula, 'Superfly' surely created it. Still, this movie is pretty good. Ron O'Neal is a trip from start to finish with his unflinching seriousness about getting out of the life with a million in cash..."the big ONE!" Hey, if nothing else, you've got the Curtis Mayfield-produced soundtrack which is quite possibly the most complete suite of music from any of the films in this genre. The soundtrack is a classic, even if the movie isn't.

Good film.

Nice and gritty, with a raspy real-time atmosphere, but pretty slight in the plot department. Curtis Mayfield actually does make an appearance in the film...but we don't get to hear "Freddie's Dead" (only a small instrumental excerpt). But seriously though, "The Curtis Mayfield Experience"?--that was a little hard to swallow ("move over, Rover, and let Curtis take over").

Plenty of things are Superfly in this movie; the car, the suit, the character, the soundtrack. Unfortunately the plot isn't so much Superfly as superslow. That said when things finally do pick up around the photo montage sequence it's not a bad movie.

Not too much of a story, but Ron O'Neal was great as Priest. I really enjoyed the soundtrack and I love how towards the end of the movie felt like I was watching a heist movie. So it was a good set up to an excellent ending. The music was great too. But on the negative side, the last fight was choreographed so badly. That was one of the worst fight scenes I had ever seen in a movie.