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Director Gordon Parks, with a boost from some lively Issac Hayes R and B music, has shaped a fast moving, action-laden and mainly entertaining film.

Roundtree, who's excellent, knows the character of Shaft and of the film a little better than Gordon parks, whose direction is crisp and atmospheric, but maybe just a little too straight.

The complications are lively and time doesn't lag. The dialogue bristles with uninhibited profanity.

It has constancy and relevancy, and is a slick product about a very real problem of the undercover underworld.

The film is a slick product. With the exception of Cioffi, however, most of the acting is a little rough around the edges, and though the theme is timely, the detective story comes off as a routine adventure.