Review of They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) by Cha T — 13 Oct 2008

Damn this movie to hell. I work at a library and I can't tell you how me people check this out over In The Heat of the Night, thinking this is the one where he says that famous line. It a procedural all the way, but worst of all it makes Tibbs seems like he is just an angry individual; hurting the identity of the character created in ITHTN who only seemed full of angst because of the situation he was in.

But here he slaps his son three times in the face to teach him a lesson, not to mention him living in San Francisco and having a family completely goes back on his background established in the first film.

There is only one good scene in this, at the end where Poitier is forced to act. His morals of whether to continue to serve the law are tested and it seems believable. Too bad the rest of the film is too ordinary to care.

One more thing, Quincy Jones score in this is slammin', I liked the blues music he had in the first, but this is classing jamming jazz, much better than the movie.