Big Daddy Kane, Billy Zane, Blair Underwood

Mario Van Peebles directed as well as starred in this ham-fisted, 1993 Western with a predominantly African American cast. The story finds a posse of black shooters (with one white member, played by S...( read more  read more... )tephen Baldwin) taking on a racist sheriff and military man, but Van Peebles's effort at mixing convention with hip credentials gets pretty grating. (Tone Loc makes the worst cowboy in film history.) The film is also incredibly sexist, going well beyond the usual frontier-floozy clichés and lapsing into the sort of blatant exploitation one found at that time in rap-music videos. There are lots of cameo appearances from familiar folks willing to support Van Peebles on a project that probably sounded like a mix of experiment and event--Pam Grier, Isaac Hayes, Woody Strode, and the director's father, Melvin Van Peebles. But even they can't help. --Tom Keogh

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Directed by: Mario Van Peebles

Release Date: May 14, 1993

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DVD Release Date: November 24, 1998

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  • September 30, 2009
    I actually quite like this film although it isn't without its flaws. Mario Van Peebles does a great job behind the camera but not a great job in front of it. Zane hams it up as always but Baldwin, Hayes and daddy Van Peebles make it worth watching.
  • December 11, 2007
    this was better than expected. it wasnt great, but it had its bright spots.
  • July 14, 2007
    Rather trashy blaxploitation reinvention of the western, much more in the anachronistic spirit of Young Guns than Unforgiven (Tone Loc doesn't even TRY to act like a cowboy!). It's amusingly dumb, particularly the sequences involving backward gun totin' redneck Stephen Baldwin, b...( read more)ut it takes itself a lot more seriously than it should. Nice to see some cameos by stars of the original blaxploitation films of the 70s though.
  • March 28, 2009
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • February 3, 2009
    I AM ALSO FROM THE MOR TEASAR TRIBE.....FIRE DON KOM DAWN FI BURN.
  • December 11, 2008
    probably one of the most underated movies out there. VERY good movie. and i normally hate cowboy movies.
  • November 29, 2008
    should be called possers
  • September 3, 2008
    i loved this movie....a western but with black cowboys....this posse definitely handled themselves very well....big daddy kane was smooth in this movie...the cast did a great job n this movie......
  • August 31, 2008
    This movie was pure entertainment!!!
  • July 21, 2008
    WOW!!!!! Salli Richardson.

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