Review of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) by Jezzy A — 19 Feb 2007

As a fan of Blaxploitation films, I went back to this to see the culture significance it had in ensembling an all black cast (something which had never been done before) and then how Hollywood would take the format and make money out of it. Believe me it makes an obvious transgression, especially in its first stages of development of the blaxploitation convention.

The film isn't a masterpiece nor does it come close to resembling a good film (it does largely seem a film made of shots of a man on the run, literally), however despite that one downfall I think it must be remembered as the ancestor to a cult genre in itself.

An interesting watch solely on remembering the effect it had on moviemaking.