Self-preservation is the theme and swagger is all it has going for it. And the soundtrack, by the rap star Future, isn't any more explicit. Youngblood wants out of the cocaine business because he fears that he's going to slip up sooner or later and kill or be killed, not because he thinks there's anything intrinsically nasty about what he's doing. Otherwise, there's little reference to racial politics – apart from the brutality of the crooked cops, both white – and you could hardly call it a morality tale. In the midst of a car chase, the statue of a Confederate soldier in a park is toppled from its plinth and after casting a fleeting glance at it, the camera moves on, the point having been made.
Once you get used to the quantities of fake fur and the kilos of gold chain on show, there are few laughs to be had and only one truly witty moment. I'd guess that both of them are yet to hear of the #MeToo movement but it's something.ĭirected by the music video-maker Director X, the whole thing plays like a fancy dress parody of a crime movie, except nobody seems to be having much fun. They also get to play a part in one of the action scenes. In this one, he's part of a cosy sexual threesome where the women – Georgia (Lex Scott Davis) and Cynthia (Andrea Londo) – get as much pleasure from one another as they do from him. One was white and the other, the love of his life, was black. In the original movie, he had two girlfriends. However, his sex life has undergone an intriguing update. The casual misogyny which was a feature of the first film is still in the picture – especially when the men in white are airing their thoughts on the bitches and whores of their acquaintance, and when he's not doing deals and socialising with Atlanta's artistic set, Youngblood is looking in on his strip club, where the camera gets very excited about the amount of flesh on display. Watching them go to work is like witnessing a mobile hospital on the move – except you wouldn't want to be a patient.īut they're so busy with their wardrobe that they don't create quite enough mayhem to keep Youngblood completely busy, so he's also given the opportunity to tangle with a Mexican drug cartel and two crooked cops with designs on his cocaine proceeds. In a curious inversion of the old Western convention which put the villain in a black hat, they dress in white, drive white cars, use white guns and get buried in white coffins. The most diverting thing about them, however, is their fashion sense. Standing in his way is a rival gang who want him dead. Likewise, who produced Superfly 2018 Future Joel Silver. The film is a sequel to the 1973 film Super Fly T.N.T. The Return of Superfly is a 1990 crime drama film directed by Sig Shore. Unwilling to leave empty-handed, he's planning one last job, so big that it will set him up forever. Furthermore, will there be a Superfly 2 movie The Return of Superfly. Priest (Trevor Jackson), too, has had enough of the business. It was an interpretation which ignored the fact that Curtis Mayfield's soundtrack, which has since become a soul classic, resonated with his belief that drug-trafficking was the single most destructive force in African-American society. Drugs were always a feature of the films, causing the first one to be condemned by some for glorifying the trade and those who lived by it. The setting, too has changed, moving from Harlem to Atlanta, home of trap music, a brand of Southern rap with connotations of gangsterism and drug dealing.
Trevor Jackson's Youngblood Priest has had enough of the drugs business and wants to go straight – after one last deal. Curious to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit." 'SuperFly' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, Redbox, Apple iTunes, Google Play Movies, AMC on Demand, Vudu, YouTube, and DIRECTV. Released June 13th, 2018, 'SuperFly' stars Trevor Jackson, Jason Mitchell, Michael Kenneth Williams, Lex Scott Davis The R movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 47 min, and received a user score of 69 (out of 100) on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 294 experienced users. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'SuperFly' right now, here are some finer points about the Columbia Pictures, Silver Pictures, Sony Pictures action flick. We've listed a number of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription choices - along with the availability of 'SuperFly' on each platform. Fancy watching ' SuperFly' on your TV, phone, or tablet? Hunting down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or watch the Director X.-directed movie via subscription can be tricky, so we here at Moviefone want to take the pressure off.