Black Samson.This film is about a black guy named Samson. Whew, that was a difficult to explain. He owns a bar – which features topless dancers – but he doesn’t pimp them out. He’s a nice guy who has a pet lion and carries around a staff that he will beat you with if you piss him off. Well there’s a bunch of Italian mobsters hanging around who want his territory for their own.
Samson isn’t a gang leader, he actually is a nice guy who runs the neighbourhood and keeps things clean (if you saw District B13 – he’s like Leito). The area around him is controlled by the mob and he wont let them in.
The mob boss runs things the modern way, no violence, but lawyers. He’s more of a shady business man, rather than a killer. His nephew on the other hand (Mr. Nappa he prefers to be called) is the old fashioned gangster type – rule by force.
Nappa tries to take out Samson, but Sam kicks ass every time. The kidnap his girl and he still kicks their ass.
Basically this movie is about Samson going around being cool and TCBing at all times. What makes it work is that Samson is very likeable. He also wears these wicked African tribal style shirts that are just so colourful. He really stands out as a character of the Blaxploitation films.
This one is definitely worth a watch.
3.5/5
J-Man.
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