Three the Hard Way

Great cast, plenty of 70s cheese, and tons of bloody action. It's a blast.

This 70's blaxploitation starring Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, and Jim Kelly is pretty much everything I hoped it would be. With fights, car chases, shoot-outs, explosions, plus some knock-off Nazis, and the movie has almost everything. Unfortunately, most of the rest in-between the action is just boring. Although after the slow first 30 minutes the action seems to come at regularly scheduled intervals, but then the action too kind of breaks down into a slog with the an overlong final act.

If you can overlook all of the technical and filmmaking flaws this is a decently entertaining action-adventure film. This is more James Bond and less Shaft at least in my opinion.

This film is extremely light on logic, but really high in everything that makes a film fun ... gun fights; martial arts; cars exploding for no discernible reason; topless, motorcycle-riding S&M chicks that get ANSWERS; burning scientists ... really, everything that matters. It's kind of shoddy despite having stunt work by Hal Needham and being shot by Lucien Ballard, but it makes up for it with insane energy levels.

Grand Theft Auto games must be made on these Blaxploitation movies. Kick ass fun.