Shaft (2019)
"More Shaft than you can handle."
Critics Score
🎬 37%
(RT: 34%, MC: 40) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Jordan Preston Carter as Young JJ
Nyah Marie Johnson as Young Sasha
Matt Lauria as Major Gary Cutworth
Is Shaft good?
Most people think so. 73% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 37%, but audiences disagreed.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly. Wikipedia ↗
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