Super Fly T.N.T. (1973) User Reviews

A more positive message....but also not nearly as stylish.

[planktonrules · 4/10 · 13 February 2011]

Priest (Ron O'Neal) is back in a sequel to the hit "Superfly". However, this time he's quite different--a kindler, gentler sort of Priest. You see, in the first film, Priest was completely amoral---and made his fortune selling dope and women. Here, the film finds him living the good life in Europe--he's retired and financially secure. However, he is also vaguely dissatisfied and despite his repeatedly saying he's only out to make money and take care of himself and his woman, he is eventually persuaded to help a man (Roscoe Lee Browne) in his attempt to start a revolution in his small African nation against the colonial powers--he wants Priest to smuggle in weapons for their struggle. Finally, Priest has a purpose to life and his performance throughout the film is very restrained and low-key. This, I'm sure, is a big disappointment to fans who want the confident and ultra-bad anti-hero--not this confused and more likable guy. I appreciated, however, that the character finally showed some conscience and a sense of purpose (to quote Steven Martin from "The Jerk"--'I found my purpose!!').

I do agree with one of the reviews that complained that it took so long for this plot to develop. It was clearly a slow film and could easily have been tightened up quite a bit. Also, I agree that the soundtrack was incredibly disappointing, as the original film had one of the best blaxsploitation scores ever--second only to the one from "Shaft". As a result, the film is certainly watchable but not a whole lot more. It's a shame, as the plot wasn't a bad idea--it just was so slow and dull when it should have been anything but.

By the way, one thing to look for if you do see the movie is Robert Guillaume singing near the beginning. With his beautiful voice it's easy to see why, for a while, he played the lead in the play "Phantom".

Lacked the Passion and Raw Energy of Its Predecessor

[Uriah43 · 5/10 · 7 January 2019]

Having left New York City with a large sum of money gained by his sale of illegal drugs, "Youngblood Priest" (Ron O'Neil) has eventually settled down in Rome with his girlfriend "Georgia" (Sheila Frazier). Yet even though he spends his time driving an expensive Lamborghini and playing poker with some acquaintences, Priest is still not content with life. This changes when he meets a man named "Dr. Lamine Sonko" (Roscoe Lee Browne) who tells him that he is trying to wage a revolution in his West African nation of Umbria and needs Priest's help in laundering diamonds into money to pay for weapons. Although he has seen poverty all of his life, Priest refuses to help and this leaves Dr. Sonko extremely angry with him. And with that Priest feels even more empty inside. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this sequel wasn't nearly as good as the original in that it lacked the passion and raw energy of its predecessor. Even so it wasn't terribly bad overall and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Average.

A great example of Sequelitis

[Scott_Mercer · 3/10 · 24 February 2011]

This movie bored the snot out of me.

I had seen the original Superfly first. I wanted more of the same. Butt kicking, hard slapping, big bad PIMPING.

This movie has a retired Priest, (aka Superfly, the hero of the first film) living it up in Rome, approached by a wannabe rebel leader from a small West African nation, trying to get out from under the yoke of colonial oppression by THE MAN. He wants Priest to run some guns into the war-torn African nation for him.

Imagine my shock when I discovered just now that this film was co-written by ALEX HALEY, the author of the fantastic "Roots." That first came on TV when I was a kid, as one of the last of the big network television "events" before Cable TV really got wide latitude. That was along lines of The Beatles on Ed Sullivan (before my time) a Super Bowl, or the "Who Shot J.R." episode (I remember that hype too). But "Roots" was a great piece of art, and I mean EVERYBODY but EVERYBODY watched it, whatever color your skin happened to be.

This movie was a waste and a disaster, but I guess Alex Haley is where the idea of the African setting came from (idle speculation on my part).

Anyway, I guess they were trying to do something new with the character, but the concept was utterly wrong-headed from the start. The movie is also REALLY SLOW. It takes about 45 minutes before he gets to Africa! Too long! And the whole side story with Robert Guillame as a fellow American in Rome, an artist with a fantastic singing voice, was just a waste of time.

Original Superfly: 8 out of 10. This tripe: 3 out of 10.

It's still much better than THE GUY FROM HARLEM, though.

entertaining sequel that I enjoyed more than the original

[videomaniac · 15 December 2004]

Superfly T.N.T is a highly entertaining sequel which deserves more credit than it very often gets. I loved everything about this one with the exception of the soundtrack (I liked this soundtrack but missed Curtis Mayfield) and the film's finale (which doesn't end on as high a note as the original film since this time Priest's new line of hustling has just started). Alex Haley and Ron O'Neal did excellent work on this film. Haley's script is both powerful and fun. O'Neal makes a good directorial debut. He's even better in the role of Priest this time than in the original Superfly. Superfly T.N.T. has a fine cast too. It's one of my favorite films of the era and my favorite of the three Superfly movies (although they are all worth seeing). This is a great film if you can accept the soundtrack (very appropriate but not as cool as Mayfield) and the finale (Priest's work has just begun so there's no easy ending). God Bless Ron O'Neal and Alex Haley.

Super Fly TNT--truly indeed a total bomb

[Sparky48 · 1/10 · 24 February 2012]

Without a doubt, one of the worst movies, let alone sequels, that you will ever see, even by Blaxploitation film standards. This 1973 sequel to the blockbuster '72 hit movie is a huge disappointment that doesn't even remotely-in terms of both quality and appeal--replicate the preceding action-packed, street savvy tale about a highly charismatic but disillusioned black Harlem cocaine dealer, Priest.

In this, the second chapter of the Super Fly saga, Priest relocates overseas to Europe where he is now retired from hustling and lives in Rome with his girlfriend, Georgia. Although now financially secure, having successfully "run down the fantastic number" in a major drug deal while in New York City, he finds that retired live in Europe isn't all that it's cracked up to be. He suffers from incessant boredom, with gambling in nightly poker games with Italian businessmen as his lone source of interest. However, it is at the end of one of these card games that he meets an African dignitary looking for someone to oversee a gun smuggling operation, which a military unit in his country has recently botched.

Apparently struck by Priest's charismatic appearance (if nothing else), the African official, Dr. Lamine Sonko, tries to encourage him to take the arms smuggling assignment. Initially, Priest is reluctant to do so, and Sonko prevails upon him that as a black man he has a moral duty to aide his African brothers in their time of need. With Sonko's sermon about international black unity riding his conscience, coupled with his disillusionment with retired living, Priest eventually accepts the job, much to the dismay of his significant other, Georgia, and subsequently boards a plane to Sonko's African country to embark on the arms smuggling mission.

Ron O'Neal, who stars in the lead role, directed and co-wrote the story line for "Super Fly TNT," and therein would most likely explain why this movie is such a cinematic atrocity. Although O'Neal's performance in the original Super Fly movie was the stuff of legend, and he was one of the better actors of the 70s' Blaxploitation movie era, his direction of this movie, however, is overtly and highly inept. Much of the movie is confusing and vague, with scenes so pointless and tediously elongated that the only positive aspect of it is that the movie viewer can easily empathize with Priest's ongoing dilemma of being ceaselessly bored.

Interesting enough, Alex Haley wrote the screenplay for "Super Fly TNT." (Haley of course would go on to become a household name as author of the classic, best-selling novel "Roots," several years after the release of this movie.) However, the screenplay he wrote for this movie, much like O'Neal's incompetent movie direction, is listless, providing few, if any, moments of intense drama and intrigue.

Sheila Frazier reprises her role from the original movie as Priest's loyal, understanding girlfriend. Although a stunningly attractive woman, her acting skills are poor, so much so that her highly unprofessional performance in this movie alone instantly relegates it to B-film status.

As a considerably more polished acting professional, veteran actor Roscoe Lee Browne delivers the movie's best performance as the eloquent, outspoken Dr. Lamine Sonko, the African official who hires Priest to man his country's gun smuggling operation. Yet, through no fault of Browne's of course, you can't help but wonder why in the world would a high-ranking African dignitary want to tap Priest, a man he barely knew anything about, for such a complicated, crucial paramilitary assignment.

A relatively young Robert Guillaume makes his movie debut in "TNT" as Jordan, a black American writer who befriends Priest in Rome. However, his character in "TNT" is totally insignificant to the movie's plot, making him the film's most dispensable character. Yet he does provide one of the very rare moments of interest in the movie by showcasing his operatic singing ability in a scene at an Italian restaurant, an impressive talent that many, myself included, never knew Guillaune possessed.

In stark contrast to Curtis Mayfield's brilliant musical score from the original movie, which became an instant R&B classic, the musical soundtrack for "TNT," performed by the Ghanaian musical group Osibisa, is rather repulsive. Unlike Mayfield's excellent musical score from the original "Super Fly" movie, the African-Caribbean-styled soundtrack for "TNT" is highly inappropriate for the streetwise Priest character and far out of context with his "cool" persona.

The combination of the aforementioned elements--fatuous movie direction, vapid screenplay, and a lame musical soundtrack-makes for one of the most dreadful movie viewing experiences that you will ever have, with a story ending, much like most of the movie itself, so perplexing and vague that it will leave you hangin' and asking yourself "WTF?" as you watch the credits roll on the screen.

Aptly titled "TNT," O'Neal, Haley, and Sig Shore (movie producer) collaborate in creating a complete bomb of a movie, a cinematic disaster that will truly indeed blow you away.

Terrible Idea

[Falconeer · 4/10 · 27 December 2017]

Everything that was right with the original "Super Fly" is wrong here. The original was the true definition of "independent film making;" very small budget, humble, and passionate. Nobody involved was famous, or a "big shot," and that gave the movie a kind of innocence that is lost on this showy sequel. The biggest mistake was taking the action out of New York City, as the ghetto backdrop played such a major role in the story, and it defined exactly who the character, Priest was. For this sequel the action is moved to more exotic settings of Italy, and later Africa. Thus the connection to the first film is lost. Everything here is bigger, more expensive, and everyone involved is more self-important due to the success they found with the first movie; thus the heart is lost as well. This is typical example of what goes wrong with sequels of great movies. The same thing happened with the "Penitentiary" franchise. The first one was an excellent piece of independent cinema, made with no money by a team of unknowns, and it was followed by an awful sequel, devoid of passion or artistic value. As far as Ron O'Neal, the man who made Priest such a fascinating character; he wasn't given the kinds of roles that he should have gotten. But he truly redeems himself after "Super Fly TNT," a few years later, with the excellent grindhouse classic "The Hitter," a film that received no attention, but is a million times better than this shallow vanity piece. I would encourage any fan of "Super Fly" and Ron O'Neal to skip this lame sequel and search out "The Hitter" instead.

Explosive ... not

[kosmasp · 4/10 · 5 November 2020]

Well I thought the original was all over the place ... the sequel is actually even more so. Even if they did a location change (and I reckon since Italy was quite cheap to shoot at in the 70s they probably shot there too, not that it matters), this is quite a dull watch overall. Even with the charismatic lead.

As with the first one, I am not aware of production issues or the history of the making of. Historically it is known that it wasn't easy for African American/black people to get an acting job. So I guess it makes sense that Ron O'Neal directed this as well. Maybe he bit more than he could chew though. Even with the addition of a great character actor, there was not much to save ... Blaxploitation fans may feel different overall. And maybe I'm spoiled with something like Black Dynamite that is just pitch perfect ...

When in Rome.

[mark.waltz · 4/10 · 24 October 2022]

To watch the two "Super Fly" movies back to back is like watching two unrelated films. Certainly Ron O'Neal is playing the exact same character, and he has moved on from cocaine selling in Harlem to being retired in Italy with girlfriend Sheila Frazier, living a quiet life. But encounters with Robert Guillaume and Roscoe Lee Browne gets him involved in another type of criminal activity, aiding revolutionaries by smuggling guns into a fictional African country called Umbria.

So we're supposed to believe that Priest has gone from a life of crime which could kill his clients to a man aiding people in a country he's probably never heard of, and for the concept is interesting, it's much more serious and lacks the fun of the first film which while not entirely believable was often funny where this is extremely serious in every way. But O'Neal is a good actor even though there's a lack of consistency. Guillaume gets to sing a beautiful rendition of "O Solo Mio" (the music of which is known to be the Elvis song, "It's Now or Never") and Browne (a truly great character actor) is sensational. Some good location footage makes this interesting, but it's ambition is far too great for what ends up on screen even though it was written by Alex Haley of "Roots" fame.

Weak and Unnecessary

[frschoonover · 1/10 · 1 August 2021]

A year after the success of 1972\s "Superfly", Sig Shore and Ron O'Neal decided a sequel was in order and after drafting a story idea between the two of them, they hired Alex Haley, later of ROOTS fame, to write the screenplay. O'Neal also let his ego work overtime by assuming the director's chair for this sequel.

When released by Paramount in 1973, the movie was a huge disaster both commercially and critically. After I saw this movie on VHS, I saw why.

In this film, Priest is now living in Rome retired from dealing cocaine, although he is still wary of his former operation in the USA. He meets an African mercenary (Roscoe Lee Brown) who seeks his aide in helping him gets some weapons across a certain part of Africa while avoiding the local authorities and other illegal weapons runners as well. Priest informs him that he has no interest in this much to the chagrin of the mercenary.. Along the way, he meets someone who seems like an old friend of his from the states named Jordan (Robert Guillaume) and during his spare time, he now plays poker with Italian businessmen and gambles for a living while his faithful girlfriend Georgia (reprised by Sheila Frazier) continues to stand by him hoping that one day, due to him now being financially secure, they can start a family, but Priest shows no interest in having a family. The mercenary later reiterates his offer to Priest, and although Priest still shows no interest, he decides to visit the motherland of his ancestors and realizes that he can't turn his back on this and soon, he decides to join the fight. I won't give too much away as I don't want to spoil it for all of you who haven't seen this movie as of yet.

While it wasn't a bad idea for a film in itself, and despite a pretty well written script by Alex Haley, the movie falls short in a lot of ways. Firstly, O'Neal's direction of this film is extremely sloppy and amateurish. Secondly, the movie is 87 minutes of boring and listless scenes where really nothing eventful happens and while waiting for anything to happen, all it induces is yawns of boredom and even when the action starts, it's way too late for anything of action to happen because much of the movie is wasted waiting on anything to arouse interest until that happens. Plus, the action also looks like it was rehashed from another war movie prior to this. Despite some good performances by Brown, Guillaume and Frazier and a solid jazz and soul soundtrack by African band Osibasa. This film is nothing more than a sloppily constructed mess that relies more on atmosphere than on anything totally solid to make a film arouse interest and also, entertain. When I watched this, I yawned so much more than on any other boring film I have ever watched prior to this one. O'Neal was a much better actor than a director and this film proves it, although he would return to the director's chair for the.1991 Made For Cable TV film; "Up Against the Wall.", which I haven't seen as of yet, but plan on because Marla Gibbs is in that particular film and when I do, I will write a review on that.

IMHO, this movie should have had "Avoid at all costs" written all over it because this is a movie to avoid at all costs as it is boring, weak, awful and above all, totally unnecessary.

Stick with the first Superfly from 1972 as that is THE superior movie over this sequel and that later sequel "The Return of Superfly" and also, it is a whole lot better than this and that latter sequel. By avoiding this film, you'll be doing yourself a favor.

Ron O'Neal directed himself in a pretty good sequel called Super Fly T.N.T.

[tavm · 7/10 · 19 March 2020]

After becoming a star with Super Fly, actor Ron O'Neal decided to co-write and direct the sequel. Actually, he helped think of the story with the resulting screenplay by noted author Alex Haley. Perhaps because of the criticism of the glamorizing of drug life in the previous one, O'Neal's Priest character is totally out of the business (though that was his intent from that first film) but gets roped into a more, perhaps, worthy one in dealing with guns for a country that wants independence. Also, instead of taking place in NY City, the setting is now in Rome where he and his girlfriend, Georgia (Sheila Frazier), from the first one have settled. I'll just say while I found the movie quite dramatic concerning Mustafa (instead of Youngblood) Priest's trials near the end, I can understand why many fans of the first one weren't so enthralled. It's certainly a different flavor, that's for sure! I'm also entertained by the score by Osibisa and the fact that both Robert Guillaume and Roscoe Lee Browne, who subsequently played butler Benson and his replacement Saunders, respectively, on the hit comedy series "Soap", were also in this movie though not together. Guillaume, by the way, shows his singing talents when he does "O Sole Mio" in a restaurant scene, here.

This One Doesn't Fly

[boblipton · 4/10 · 19 March 2020]

Ron O'Neal isn't merely fly; he isn't even simply Super Fly. He's nothing less than Super Fly TNT, tooling around Rome in an expensive-looking car, dressing like a runway model and being asked by Roscoe Lee Brown (who's sporting a French accent) to come to Africa to save them from Whitey.

O'Neal, however, has to spend the first hour or so of the movie looking fabulous for going horse riding , before he grows bored in eight seconds at a poker game, flies down to Africa, is immediately stripped and whipped by some very white guys, imprisoned, escapes, and saves the world.

Alex Haley got paid for helping write this. I hope he thinks he got paid enough for the hit to his reputation.

Great Underated Sequel!!!

[bronzesrv · 8/10 · 20 October 2018]

I love this movie so much! I actually love it better than the first one. Back in the day a lot of people didn't like it because they felt it wasn't as hardcore as the first one. It should not have been ,because of course in the first version, he was trying to get out of the drug game and stay out. Superfly TNT, he's in another country, Rome, and he's trying to do something different without going back to hustling,which is what he is tricked into doing anyway. Just that it's with trasporting Guns instead of with drugs. Of course he finds that out the hard way. Georgia figures he'll settle down and be still if they had a child, Priest doesn't want a child ,not yet anyway, though he stresses he wants a boy someday. I thought the movie was really good, wasn't perfect could have been better. But I thought it was awesome for a sequel, especially due to the fact that Ron O'Neal wrote and directed this on his own which was a beautiful thing in my opinion. It was released on VHS but never on DVD and it's really hard to find. I finally found a download on a website where I downloaded it to my tablet to watch. I gave it a 8 instead of a 10 because I felt the ending could have been much better.

The Trouble with T.N.T.

[higherall7 · 7/10 · 30 April 2020]

This is important, as it should give you a clue to how sequels can go wrong. I remember taking my shapely-legged date to this one. We entered the movie theater hand-in-hand and were expecting big things from this sequel to SUPER FLY.

Sometimes I think I should have smelled what was cooking from the title alone. The film, due to higher production values, started out as something comparable to a Bond film because of its European trappings. We remember the look of steely confidence on the faces of the lead actors, Sheila Frazier and Ron O'Neal, now riding high off the sensational success of SUPER FLY and no doubt expecting more of the same to follow. We settled in for the promise of a good evening to come.

Everything started out fine. There were glimpses of that Olympic track running by O'Neal from the prior film in this one. The poker game was reminiscent of the ending of SUPER FLY, and we expected it foreshadowed an even more 'wow' finish when we finally got to the end. And nobody figured on that stirring monologue that Priest Youngblood gives in front of a Casino Fountain that posits him as some kind of Ghetto Hamlet doing Shakespeare in the Park! So far everybody is rolling with this...

Roscoe Lee Browne encounters Youngblood and does his African statesman riff as Doctor Lamine Sonko, and it looks like we have a mentor and father figure for Youngblood comparable to Julius W. Harris' Scatter. Check and double-check. That is when the T.N.T. part kicks in and proves particularly prophetic.

There are some reviewers who thought that this film moved too slow, but the pace seemed fine to us. No, the way I reason it out, the problems to T.N.T. were to be found elsewhere; and actually had more to do with the original shortcomings of the first film. The fact is we know very little about Priest Youngblood, and it would appear that after T.N.T., there ain't much more to be known. Priest does not reflect on the death of Scatter or the betrayal of his best friend, Eddie, even though that would add depth to his back story. Doctor Lamine Sonko is questionably the only scintilla of a reference to Black History but besides one stirring, angry speech to Priest, fails to share anymore 'fun facts' with him about his cultural heritage.

People talk about 'back story' all the time, and because of cinema's emphasis and accent on the visual, this is something that has to be deftly handled. The absence or presence of it makes all the difference between a mere exercise in sensationalism and something that has a bit more substance to it. What was a revelation to me is that 'front story' is something that can be just as important as 'back story', and sometimes even more important in some narratives.

Now in SUPER FLY, Priest Youngblood just wanted to get out of 'the life'. He wanted 'freedom from' being owned by his 'white oppressors'. But I once read that 'freedom from' isn't much good unless there something to be 'free to'. Getting out of one life isn't much of an advancement unless there is another new and better life to get into. None of this is adequately explored in T.N.T.

Nobody expected a coke sniffing drug dealer to have some grand soaring vision of deliverance. But his humble groping towards it through a facade of ghetto macho posturing was what made Priest such an arresting character. This search for a 'front story' or a vision the main characters can strive towards and help forge, like Priest's girlfriend Georgia did for him in the first film, should have been more fully satisfied by the arrival of Doctor Lamine Sonko as yet another step in the continuum.

Now past these moot points to the ending or what I referred to as the RESOLUTION in my book of movie reviews TOWARD A NEW CINEMA. It was the way SUPER FLY T.N.T. resolved it's story that made the audience, as well as me and my date, go 'AWWWW' with a visceral sense of disappointment. Everything was actually building up fine until we came to the ending. Somehow, it lacked the scope and scale of Priest's confrontation with Deputy Commissioner Reardon in the first film, or the overwhelming sense that the main protagonist has somehow taken command of the situation in no uncertain terms using his wits and intelligence from a plausible ghetto perspective. There was no sense of having bested the High and the Mighty and rocked the White Power Structure in some form or fashion. This, despite the fact that Ron O'Neal did a fine job in his directorial debut and Alex Haley, of ROOTS and MALCOLM X renown, wrote a fascinating script from O'Neal's story.

I cannot help but wonder what would have happened if Deputy Commissioner Reardon had tracked down the killers Priest hired, and either liquidated them or offered to pay them two or three times as much to take out SUPER FLY.

This might have made an interesting opening scene or EXPOSITION. Perhaps then there would have been more to T.N.T.

Super Fly T. N.T contains some worthwhile bits and pieces but falls short as a whole

[kevin_robbins · 4/10 · 15 September 2023]

I recently watched Super Fly T. N. T (1973) on Facebook. The storyline follows Super Fly, who has retired from the street life and moved to Rome. As he attempts to settle down and distance himself from his past, he encounters new people who remind him of his responsibility to guide others along a different path. Initially hesitant, our hero must decide whether to show others that success and happiness can be found outside of hustling and drugs.

Directed by and starring Ron O'Neal (Up Against the Wall), the film also features notable actors like Roscoe Lee Brown (Logan's Run), Sheila Frazier (Three the Hard Way), Robert Guillaume (Benson), Jacques Sernas (Helen of Troy) and William Berger (Hercules).

While this movie has all the ingredients for a worthwhile picture, they somehow aren't blended smoothly for the viewer's journey. The beautiful settings are underutilized, and although the dialogue is well-written, the self-reflection and comedy detract from the primary plot. The self-reflection could have been more effectively integrated. Additionally, while the horseback riding scenes are humorous, they feel somewhat out of place based on the character. However, the soundtrack and jive elements, as expected, add to the film's appeal.

In conclusion, Super Fly T. N. T contains some worthwhile bits and pieces but falls short as a whole. I would rate it 4/10 but still recommend watching it at least once.

Good action later, kind of boring at first

[vchimpanzee · 14 July 2005]

The movie opens with scenes of what turns out to be Rome. I didn't know where this was set, and I had no knowledge of the original 'Superfly', but I was curious. When I saw the Colosseum, I knew where it was.

A group of rebels in an African desert gets ambushed, their weapons are taken, and the men are killed. Dr. Sonko is in the room when one of the rebel leaders is informed about what has happened. Later, Dr. Sonko goes to Rome. As it turns out, he wants Priest to help him.

The first half of the movie didn't make a lot of sense, possibly because I didn't know the characters. I know they were playing poker, and that's about it. I did like Jordan Gaines, who was funny, and I wouldn't have recognized him had I not seen Robert Guillaume's name in the credits. I enjoyed hearing Priest say things like 'Can you dig it?'

The music added to the movie, especially where there was what sounded like a traditional African performance mixed with 70s American soul. Scenes of African culture about halfway through the movie, including women carrying baskets on their heads, and people doing local crafts--these added to the movie as well.

Roscoe Lee Browne is such an excellent actor. So I was surprised that he seemed distracted by his French accent, and not as talented as usual. But when he gave his big speech to Priest about why Priest should care about Umbia (I'm guessing at the spelling), THAT was the Roscoe Lee Browne I expected.

Sheila Frasier did a good job as Georgia. Ron O'Neal's ability came through more in the second half, with some good though violent scenes where Priest had to use both intelligence and physical ability. The ending was great.

I'd like to see the original 'Superfly'.

Underrated.

[TheOneThatYouWanted · 10/10 · 9 October 2023]

Giving this a 10 stars become the current score is a crime. The film is more of a 7 out of 10 kind of a movie. Honestly, they tried to kill this movie because of the message of this movie and the first movie.

Is this movie worth watching? If you are awesome then yes.

How was the plot? Not great but good.

Was the budget enough? No, you can tell they had a limited budget. Buy they worked it out good enough.

What is this movie saying about our world? The truth.

What did this movie make me feel? Like being awesome.

What thoughts does this movie spark in me? To fly.

What themes are present in this movie? Be awesome.

Zzzzzzzz.....

[Wizard-8 · 12 September 2000]

The premise of this sequel is not a bad one: a retired Priest, living in Europe, has his conscious stirred by African rebels needing help overthrowing their colonial government, and decides to help them. However, this movie takes forever to get started, and then takes forever to get to an end that feels unsatisfying and unfinished. Unlike the first movie, the musical score is terrible. It's no wonder this movie bombed in theaters and took forever to be released on video.