It falls into the category of what typically has become known as "Blaxploitation" films, but gave such films of the similar genre (for instance Coffy) a bad name.

| Original Score: F | Sep 12, 2017

A brilliant laugh-out-loud slapstick crowd pleaser made with love and talent.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2010

Fond and very funny homage to the exploitation era.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2010

The portentous dialogue, two-track-recorded soundtrack (by Adrian Younge) and eager performances are all highly diverting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2010

A pin-sharp send-up of 1970s blaxploitation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2010

Black Dynamite will stir some pleasant memories.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 15, 2010

If the joke is somewhat one-note and eventually told too long and too often, at least it's a good joke.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 16, 2009

Before an hour has passed tedium overtakes Black Dynamite -- one corny martial-arts sequence turns out to be plenty -- and all the good jokes dry up.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 24, 2009

Even though it sounds funnier than it plays, between the song and the nun chucks, I was happy.

Full Review | Oct 26, 2009

But even with that being the case I did enjoy myself while watching it, the good outweighing the bad just enough I'm willing to cut this ghetto kung-fu crime fighter some slack.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 16, 2009

The details are perfect, from the particle-board sets to the porn-ready score. (And dig those polyester suits.) But just like the movies it parodies, this one feels over long before it's actually done.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 16, 2009

An enjoyable celebratory ode to a fiercely entertaining counterculture-inspired genre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 16, 2009

As a five-minute clip on YouTube, this spoof might be a small masterpiece. As a feature film, it's both too much and not nearly enough.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 16, 2009

A cheerfully affectionate if fit fully amusing spoof of '70s blaxpoitation movies, Scott Sanders' Black Dynamite painstakingly nails the cheesy look, music and martial arts moves of the originals.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 16, 2009

If there's a night at the movies more fun than this deadpan blaxploitation flick, it's probably boosted by something bought in a dark alley.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 16, 2009

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 16, 2009

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 16, 2009

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 16, 2009

See this one with a crowd, and remember Black Dynamite's immortal words: "Doughnuts don't wear alligator shoes."

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2009

Sanders delights in the amateurishness of blaxploitation, from clunky exposition to shootouts that violate all rules of continuity and perspective to a visible boom mic, which spends so much time onscreen that it practically deserves its own credit.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 15, 2009