2009 · comedy · action · parody
Black Dynamite
Directed by Scott Sanders1h 25m2009
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.
Our read: Black Dynamite (2009) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · action · parody entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- funny
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