Storyline
Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.
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Cast
Jason Mitchell, Michael Kenneth Williams, Adam Boyer, Michael Beasley, Jennifer Morrison, Allen Maldonado, L. Warren Young, Brian F. Durkin, Dawntavia Bullard, Esai Morales, Jacob Ming-Trent, Atkins Estimonds, Lecrae Moore, Big Boi, Trevor Jackson, Rick Ross, Terayle Hill, Renée Victor, Ivan Leung, Al-Jaleel Knox, Kaalan Rashad Walker, Kurt Yue, Lex Scott Davis, Andrea Londo, Big Bank Black, Dominique Madison, Angel Love, Kia Shine, Al Nuke, Adriyan Rae, Lisa Rayam, Ahmed Lucan, Zaytoven
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Reviews
80
This high-gloss take on Gordon Parks Jr’s funky vision of the hustle goes so far into sheer, unabashed rap-video excess that calling it gratuitous would miss the point. Until it suddenly, brutally isn’t.
75
As was the case with the majority of blaxploitation films, the original Super Fly’s appeal wasn’t in its story so much as the ways in which it carved out an unapologetically black vision that served to capture a particular era in terms of its themes, music, and fashion. X has done that here, but he’s also crafted a crowd-pleasing summer blockbuster that will appeal to the modern filmgoer.
70
Sure, young star Trevor Jackson (“Grown-ish,” “American Crime”) can’t fill O’Neal’s effortlessly dapper, achingly world-weary shoes, and few movie soundtracks can rival Curtis Mayfield’s legendary album for the first “Super Fly.” But this is a remake worthy of its original.
70
Superfly may be suffused with political fury, but it is also unapologetically awash in cheap, disreputable B-movie thrills.
67
It works because the characters keep things anchored to some kind of dramatic reality.
