Story Line
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
“Still the man, any questions?”
Top Cast
Samuel L. Jackson
John Shaft
Vanessa Williams
Carmen Vasquez
Jeffrey Wright
Peoples Hernandez
Christian Bale
Walter Wade, Jr.
Busta Rhymes
Rasaan
Dan Hedaya
Jack Roselli
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Rating
6.0/ 10
Release Date
2000-06-15
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
ActionAdventureCrimeThriller
Part of the Series
Shaft (Reboot) Collection
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User Reviews (3)
John Chard
7/10
•7/6/2015I know cats who'd take out whole zipcodes for that kind of cheese.
Remakes do work occasionally, case in point Shaft, John Singleton's update of the 1971 Blacksploitation movie that starred Richard Roundtree as the title character. Roundtree gets ...
Wuchak
4/10
•8/8/2021_**A black detective in Gotham desperately wants to nail a snooty racist murderer**_
The nephew of the original John Shaft is a detective in New York City (Samuel L. Jackson) where he tries to apprehend an arrogant racist killer (Christian Bale) ...
Chandler Danier
8/10
•12/28/2025How there are 2 movies in 2 years with the name Shaft is beyond me. Both of them have Sam in them. One of them is good. This one. This one is good. You should watch it. The other one sucks. Roundtree is in both as well. Roundtree is the best.
Bale...