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Shaft
Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy swaggering buddy-cop banter, family friction, and old-school action updated with contemporary technology.
- Tone
- playful, tense, lighthearted
- Payoff
- amusement, adrenaline
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- family estrangement, friendship, justice, generational conflict
- Setting
- contemporary, urban neighborhoods and criminal underworld
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