With retirement on his mind, a successful young drug dealer sets up one last big job, while dealing with trigger-happy colleagues and the police. When Priest, a young but experienced coke dealer in Atlanta, realizes it's time to get out of the trade, he risks it all on one last score. Double-crossing his mentor, Priest heads to Mexico to connect with the cartel that serves as the source of his product. This movie is a well sculpted drama which is soaked in contemporary urban culture. If you can not appreciate the correlation between today's hip-hop influence and movie movement, this isn't the movie for you. Not only does it take you through Priest's intricate impact to the drug game, but is complimented with a very complex plot resolution that is forshadowed by the subtle "chess" references throughout the movie. The movie gives 2 hours of pure entertainment, and if you are looking for anything more, you will find that in the XXX categories. The original Super Fly is credited as being one of the original Blaxploitation movies along with Sweet Sweetback's Baadassssss Song and Shaft. All of which are considered essential movies in the genre. <br/><br/>This remake hits all the right notes and it updates it for today's audiences but it doesn't really bring anything new or noteworthy to the mix. It's stylish and honestly feels more like an extended music video in some parts. Now part of that could very well be because of the director and his background. But that's good for music videos and not for a feature length movie. <br/><br/>But the real issue is this movie has no real reason to exist. It's a remake that really is the same exact story as the original. I get why they wanted to make it but it doesn't bring anything really new to the mix.<br/><br/>As a stand alone movie it's just kinda okay. As a remake it's just a tepid retelling of a much better story. It lacks a moral center, and at times seems oblivious to the laughable things that are happening on screen. It’s also about 20 minutes too long. And yet SuperFly is entertaining, period. The dialogue is fast and fun, and the sense of fashion is so pervasive that it occasionally distracts from the movie.
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