Film Summary DCCXLIII (Black Gunn)


So a group of guys got together to rob a bookie joint. It's a pretty typical robbery.
Break into the place, use a planted guy on the inside to gain access and then steal all the money you can find.

But for some reason they're planted guy also takes these weird booking records that apparently have a lot of wealthy people's dirty laundry in it.
And I guess he wants to use it as leverage but then he never does.

Instead he tells his brother about it. A guy who runs a really successful nightclub

The robber decides to hold up in he's brother's place for a while until the heat dies down. Which may not be anytime soon as a few of the other assailants were killed in the robbery and everybody more or less knows that the whole thing was composed by this one really particular group of black men who also run this strange military (diet soda version of the Black Panthers) group.

So essentially the guys Heist is for nothing. He's got the money but he can't move.

And he doesn't show all that much interest in the books.
Something that kind of contradicts the movie later on, when after his death the rest of the 'Diet Dr. Pepper Black Panthers' tell his older brother that the books are more important than the money.
And that this guy who died was actually their leader.

But whatever that's not what matters.

The whole point of this movie is to see this guy inevitably bite it, so that his older brother who runs the nightclub "The famed: Black Gunn" can go on a murderous Rampage against a bunch of bigoted mobsters and where the entire thing erupts into an ever-expanding climax of violence and over-the-top explosions.
It's kind of funny in a way.
The film starts out neutral and grounded in reality. Then just completely goes off the rail in the last 30 minutes.
It's a lot of fun and it's definitely worth of watch if you've never seen it.
Jim Brown as a really fun performance, he gets some fun one-liners with everyone else he interacts with and there's a little bit of Romance to off put all the action.
But not so much that it completely slows down the plot.
It's also not really that gratuitous.
There's one bit of side boob, that's it.
It's actually pretty easy to edit for TV. If you're one of those weird people that do that.

Towards the end of the movie Jim Brown shows up with a shotgun to the warehouse where the main badie is.
He was going to take him all in a one-on-one intensive show down, but then gets captured by a would-be assailant from the side.
And it's kind of weird how this movie's almost devolves into one of those, one man shooting matches against an army of idiots.
Like so many bad 80s films.
But instead here we get the fill-in Black Panther group showing up as backup and there's an actual gunfight where a bunch of people died.

There's an actual sense of tension and you don't get the impression that your main hero was just going to survive willy-nilly. I mean he does of course. But he at least is a human being that can be hurt to some extent.

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