the ever cool richard roundtree and who along with the equally awesome john saxon have play more cop than any other actor alive and make his third appearance a john shaft and the super tough and super smooth and oh so hot black private dick who a sex machine to all the chick and a most gnarly guy who always get into load of trouble . this time our main man shaft the ultimate bad a soul brother from the big apple hood go to the motherland ( that africa and homeys ) so he can get the good on an evil black slavery ring that run by natch an odious bunch of wicked white btards and with the major nasty man himself be suavely slimy french dirt bag frank finley . like and can you dig this funky st and baby . well and frankly i totally dig this simply fantastic and wonderfully outrageous globe trot action or adventure treat . john guillerman briskly efficient direction keep the rouse zesty momentum hum along throughout and the action scene be suitably rough and strenuous and exciting and dynamically stag ( the stick fight in particular be the genuine happening article ) and there a welcome sense of wryly self deprecate humor ( a male assassin in drag try to plug shaft in an airport bathroom . ) and the dialogue sporadically offer a few profanity lace slangy zinger ( baby this may blow your mind and but i do not want to [ very naughty word delete ] you . ) and the snappy pace never let up for a minute and thereby ensure that shaft in africa race towards a thrilling conclusion with terrifically steady and unwavering headlong brio . moreover and the luscious vonetta mcgee lend her fetching and captivate presence a a foxy young african princess who help shaft out and johnny pate intensely groovy wah wah guitar rip score be very easy on the ear and the ever wondrous and under appreciate frank mcrae pop up in an amusing minor part a a bothersome henchman and the african scenery gorgeous and roundtree carry himself with his customary extremely watchable and winningly easynbreezy off hand grace and and hubba . hubba . the tiny and adorable and curvaceous blonde looker neda arneric will definitely raise the blood pressure of any red blood heterosexual male with her smoking hot portrayal of finley sensuous and sex starve main squeeze ( arneric steamy seduction sequence with shaft be so incredibly sexy and arouse that it almost melt my dvd player ) . a hugely satisfying and immensely stir final filmic fling for blaxploitation cinema single most engaging and significant take charge man man rugged individualist protagonist .