Bernie Casey, BrendaSykes, Esther Rolle
LAPD-officer-turned-UN-spy, Cleopatra Jones, hooks up with a handsome thief as she tries to keep a diabolical weapon from being used against the UN Secretary General.
DVD Release Date: March 30, 1999
Stats: 105 reviews
Back in the Seventies, mainstream audiences still reeling from the one-two punch of Shaft and Superfly were subjected to a barrage of ghetto avengers - Black Caesar, Willie Dynamite, The Candy Tangerine Man and the rest - all covering depressingly familiar terrain. Black writer M...( read more)
Overall, pretty good. If your movie can't have quality, at least it can be highly ridiculous, which makes it fun to watch. One thing I like about blaxploitation in general is that it has a sense of humor about itself...
All the right ingredients are here: a car chase, drug pus...( read more)
Tamara Dobson defitley blends Bond and Blaxplotation well, from kung-fu action to a gaggle of vaugely similar looking crooks, and an absolutley implausable yet oh-so-cliched villian... and, the standard blaxploitation subplot of drugs and being busted by the cops who always recru...( read more)
"LAPD-officer-turned-UN-spy, Cleopatra Jones, hooks up with a handsome thief as she tries to keep a diabolical weapon from being used against the UN Secretary General". Well that's a pile of nonsense. Cleopatra Jones, US special agent, heroine and goddess to all fights the baddie...( read more)
A beautiful Nubian sister from the past gone but not forgotten R.I.P Tamara dearest.
Fucking ridiculous. Says something that a 10 year old acts better than most of the adults in this film.
This is the film that Black Samurai wanted to be so badly.
not one of the best blapotion films of the 70' but not one of the worst either.
there is no handsome thief the synopsis is wrong and Cleo is the first black female james bond of her time. It was the first movie set i ever visited i was treated like a prince by the now late Cleopatra herself, ex supermodel. Tamara Dobson. {God rest her soul}, A great lady and...( read more)
This was a grand classic of 1970's black cimema.
One of the many black films featuring female action stars and Tamara Dobson was second to Pam Grier as one of the biggest of that decade.
You got Tamara Dobson as Cleopatra Jones taking out the mob and the syndicate headed by Shelley Winters. Action galore!!! "Cleopatra Jones" was a runaway hit when it roared into theatres in 1973. The soundtrack is a classic as well featuring 70's R&B acts like Joe Simon and The Mainstreeters and Millie Jackson makes this a must see.
It was followed in 1975 by the sequel "Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold" with Tamara Dobson again the title role.
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