far from provide the caffeine kick you would expect from a film that share it name with the most energy boosting of warm beverage and coffy clunk about and never really rise above be just a ropey revenge tale . indeed and if the movie be a cup of coffee and it would be rather weak and watery and litter with a few undesirable dreg and lack in a lingering aftertaste . sporadically it hit the spot and but otherwise it isn not the hot action drama it hop to be . plot wise and coffy be a nurse who take the law into her own hand and delivers hard justice to the drug push and lady pimpin and mob sucker that hook her young sister into a depraved and sick state . socio political commentary on the plight of urban black youth in america be prominent in coffy and and it make for some thought provoke stuff a coffy crusade against the political corruption and white establishment racism that profit and act a a parasite off the targeted afro american minority . sadly and the timely message be undermine by the film poor quality and lack of focus . coffy idea be important and it just that they be not well aim . one of the plus point of coffy be the presence of blaxploitation icon pam grier . grier go at her role with gusto and make for an appeal action heroine a she shotguns down the scum in her often spectacular act of vigilante violence ( how do you deal with a house full of hood . drive the car right through the front door . ) . it just a shame that the storyline waver on occasion and waste time squeeze as much sexual exploitation a possible . the low budget can not have help and but neither do the fact that for a blaxploitation flick and coffy lack groove . just a the issue be undermine by the lack of quality and consequently the entertainment and excitement be also skewer by moment of dullness and misdirection . the total result be workmanlike and wooden . we get a hip heroine but not a hip movie . it a shame a coffy have it moment and should rightly be regard a a key film in the blaxploitation craze while it just never ascend above be an average and lukewarm number .