Shaft (2000)
“Still the man, any questions?”
Movie20001h 39mEnglish
Our verdict
Decent one-time watch
Mixed-to-positive reactions; enjoyable if the genre is your thing.
Based on the TMDB audience score from 1,508 ratings.
Movie review: Shaft
Shaft is a film from 2000. It is catalogued under Action, Adventure, Crime. Its listed tagline is “Still the man, any questions?”
Story
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.
Audience reaction
TMDB records an audience rating of 6.0/10 based on 1,508 votes.
Production
Release date: June 15, 2000 · Runtime: 99 minutes · Original language: English · Reported budget: $46,000,000 · Reported revenue: $107,626,125
Official trailer
Cast
Samuel L. Jackson
Vanessa Williams
Jeffrey Wright
Christian Bale
Busta Rhymes
Dan Hedaya
Toni Collette
Richard Roundtree
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Josef Sommer
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