Just watched this Jim Brown action movie on the Crackle site. He plays Gunn, a nightclub owner who vows vengeance after his brother-because of his involvement in a robbery-gets killed. Unlike most blaxploitation movies, this one takes it's time in developing the story though it threatens to get monotonous when sequences get too talky. Of the supporting cast, the most interesting player to me was Jim Watkins playing the only black officer-in this case, Lt. Ken Hopper-who is firm but fair in his dealings with Gunn. My favorite scene was the one where a couple of white women staying at his girlfriend's house start putting the moves on him before that girlfriend shoos them away but not before Gunn's shirt came off! Ooh, yeah! So on that note, Black Gunn is highly recommended.

This one has Jim Brown go on a shooting spree when his kid brother gets involved with Black militants and disappeared.

It's a decent shoot-em-up with Martin Landau in a featured role, because there's always a white actor who's well known for that thing he did, so everyone knows who he is but not why.

The whole thing has a tired air of some one saw a movie and thought that what it needed was more shooting. In this case, it looks like Dashiell Hammet was somewhere in the junk DNA sequences, with almost inaudible echoes of The Maltese Falcon (wth the brutal, futile yet honest cops) and Red Dust, rendering this a decent time-waster.

In East L.A., Vietnam vet Scott Gunn leads a militant African-American Black Action Group team on a heist at an Italian mob's bookmaking operation. In addition to money, the group steals some of the illegal records. Scott seeks help from his nightclub owner brother Gunn (Jim Brown). Mobster Russ Capelli (Martin Landau) uses any violent means to retrieve their lost books.

It's a blaxploitation film. It has greasy white villains. It's black power. There is a bit of action but the movie is slow. It strives to be a serious crime drama. After just recently watched the Dolemite biopic, this is the exact opposite of blaxploitation. It's the thing that the hated producers point to as something that Dolemite could never be. Jim Brown is the black superhero. One can't ignore that he's rather stiff as an actor. His size gives him screen presence and natural charisma but he is limited. It's not as cool as Shaft and it's not funny like Dolemite.