Steineded
How sad is this?
SoftInloveRox
Horrible, fascist and poorly acted
Clarissa Mora
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
dworldeater
After appearing in Bruce Lee's blockbuster hit Enter The Dragon, Jim Kelly(who had a bit part as the ultra cool Williams)returns with ETD director Robert Clouse in Black Belt Jones. Black Belt Jones is 70's action camp at its best. Jim Kelly(RIP)was not the most talented actor, but more than made up for it by having a good build, great karate moves and one amazing afro. Jim Kelly was definitely one cool cat and in this film totally invincible against out of shape Italian mobsters and Pinky's gang of goofballs who are after Papa Byrd's(Scatman Crothers)karate school. BBJ has great colorful and entertaining characters, hilarious quotable dialogue and an awesome score by Luchi DeJesus. Black Belt Jones is a great blaxsploitation film that turns the camp to eleven. No matter how many times I watch this classic, it always makes me laugh and puts me in a better mood no matter how crappy my day was up to that point. So do yourself a favor and watch Black Belt Jones and have yourself a great time.
disdressed12
i think this film belongs to the genre of 70's blaxploitation/martial arts/action.regardless,i really enjoyed it.i thought it was a real blast.there's plenty of martial arts action.there's also a lot of funny scenes,some i'm sure are intentional,and some that might not be.the acting wasn't that bad,in my opinion.it wasn't Oscar Worthy or anything,but i don't think it was supposed to be.the music was kinda cheesy but it grew on me after awhile.this was actually the first movie i've seen of this genre.i picked it as part of a four pack of movies of the same genre.i'll definitely be checking out the other three very soon.The other three titles are "Black Samson","Hot Potato",and "Three the Hard Way".for me,Black Belt Jones is a 7/10
lastliberal
Pop (Scatman Crothers) is a womanizing, gambling caricature, but he has a piece of property the Mob wants. He and his friends, win the first battle, but the Mob and their henchmen are persistent.Jim Kelly Enter the Dragon, Three the Hard Way) is Black Belt Jones, and the action sequences certainly make up for the lack of acting ability.Ah, but it is Florida Seminole Gloria Hendry (Across 110th Street, Black Caesar, Slaughter's Big Rip-Off) that attracts me to the film, and she doesn't disappoint.Malik Carter (Cobra, Pervert!) as Pinky, the tool for the Mob was hilarious. he is the quintessential caricature of blaxploitation.
Carlos_Tigro
The man with the funky behind fro is back. I mean when i saw this movie I was like WOW Damn. Bruce Lee Ainu't got nothing on the fro. Have you seen the scene he beats up the honky IEEE. In the scene where Black Jones whips up the spaghetti guy named Plaza, he says. "Who hit me!" Then Jones Sayz: "BATMAN MUTHA*****"! I mean priceless! In the last scene the bad guy tries to drop Jones with an iron hand, then his woman screams: "watch out for the hand Jim"! And then he gets his groove on with his girl. He gets it after dropping the spaghetti dude. The movie should be seen by every karate movie lover, it has drama, adventure, comedy, a great hero and one of the greatest climaxes i've ever seen. Jones kills the mob-guy by urinating on him. His magic pee makes the mob guys skin dissolve. The Jones turns towards his own genitals and says the priceless one-liner: you've been practicing HUH? a great movie.
