Took in a showing of Shaft this weekend as well. overall, enjoyable romp. plenty of blood spurting action, petty moralizing, catch phrases, and racist wisecracks for all.
it was typically light in the plot department, but some good performances turned in. Jackson, of course, rocked as was expected. Very cold at times and compassionate at times as well. then, he looked really righteous as pummeled the shit out of some hoodlums. Bale was fine (not as fine as in Am Psycho - but i digress). i hope he doesn't type cast himself as the psycho bad guy with the pursed lips smirk, but he might just be on his way. and, as i've read, Jeffrey Wright stole the show in a truly great performance as "Peoples Hernandez". and, damn, he was almost as sexy as Bale!
all in all, a decent action movie to take in and kill a couple hours.
