"You're a big cat, but don't try selling me no wolf ticket"
This is great fun when you know the original version because you can enjoy the "jived up" script and- I imagine- it is an enjoyable enough film if you haven't.
It basically follows the pattern of Mike Hodges' 'Get Carter' but relocated to the US and with the addition of a scene showing a drunken Tackett (Carter) at his brother's wake. American Footballer Bernie Casey does well enough in the title role, Pam Grier makes the most of her part, Sam Laws has a ball in his supporting role and Roger E. Moseley is fine as baby Huey. There's not much else to say really- it's a blaxploitation flick: superhuman black man thwarts all wrong-doers, shags nigh on eighty women in a weekend, calls everyone a nigger or a honky, dresses in a way that would stand out at a tranny convention and has his own funky wah-wah theme tune.
It's entertaining but it really isn't very good. 4/10.
