It´s Giuliani time

The blaxploitation film "Shaft" from 1971 (featuring Richard Roundtree as the hard boiled Afro-American police detective John Shaft) doesn´t really have a plot. It´s a film that lives and breathes on its badass attitude. "Shaft" from 2000 seems to be a film that lives on the attitude of *another* film: the 1971 original! 

The first half is great fun watching, as the new John Shaft (starred by Samuel L Jackson - who else?) gets to show off *his* badass manners, roughing up both White upper class psychos and Hispanic underclass gangsters as he goes along, but the second half is just gritty and chaotic. I watched this film maybe four or five times, and it wasn´t until now that I really understood the plot of that latter half. But sure, it´s "Giuliani time" (Shaft´s words), so if you like shoot-outs and general mayhem with at least four factions doing the trial by combat thing, I suppose this could work for you. That, and the attitude. 

I admit that the bizarre character named Peoples Hernandez is somewhat interesting to watch, although he would probably get the entire production "cancelled" if SJWs ever get the upper hand in the Hispanic or Dominicano community (Peoples is *something* of a racist stereotype, isn´t he?). The main difference between Shaft mark 71 and Shaft mark 00 is that there´s virtually no sex in the remake, almost as if 1971 was less puritanical than 2000. But then, who knows? Maybe it was. 

Not sure how I would rate this flick, had I been an Amazon reviewer in good standing, but perhaps three-and-a-half stars would do it?