Filmgenre:
Aktion, Kinofilm

Schauspieler:
Vanessa Williams als Carmen Vasquez, Samuel L. Jackson

Drehbuch:
Richard Price

Regie:
John Singleton

Produktionsablauf:
Dreharbeiten haben am 24. September 1999 angefangen und sollten im Januar 2000 beendet werden
Geplante Veröffentlichung ist am 16. Juni in den USA

Vanessa´s Auftritt:
Vanessa spielt eine Polizistin.

Was ist das Besondere an diesen Film:
Shaft Returns basiert auf der älteren TV-Serie "Shaft". Dieser Film ist keine Neuverfilmung sondern ein eigenständiger Film mit einer neuen Story und der Hauptdarsteller spielt den Neffen des "originalen" Shaft.

US Einnahmen - $70.5 Millionen

"Shaft Returns" Links:
Offizielle Website
Internet Movie DataBase

Story:

Crooked cops on the take small-time drug lords sleazy informers and sadistic rich kids ready to kill - for police detective John Shaft, it’s just another night in the underbelly of New York City, another shift facing down cops and criminals who want him dead and a legal system that thrives on money, not justice.
With Samuel L. Jackson in the starring role and John Singleton directing, "Shaft" is a new approach to one of the great film icons of the 1970s. He’s tough, he’s smart, he’s cool just what you’d expect from a man whose uncle and mentor is John Shaft, who, now as then, is played by Richard Roundtree. Also starring in the Paramount Pictures presentation are Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Dan Hedaya, Busta Rhymes and Toni Collette.

When spoiled college kid Walter Wade (Christian Bale) kills a young black student, John Shaft (Jackson) makes the arrest. Walter skips bail and flees the country, and after two years of waiting, Shaft hauls him back into custody as Walter secretly returns to the States. But when Walter’s wealthy father posts bail once again, Walter is back out on the streets and looking to put Shaft in a body bag. So are two of Shaft’s corrupt colleagues (Dan Hedaya and Ruben Santiago-Hudson) as well as a Dominican drug lord (Jeffrey Wright) who wants revenge on Shaft for humiliating him in the neighborhood he rules. For backup, Shaft has only his two closest pals: Carmen (Vanessa Williams), a colleague on the police force; and his streetwise confidant, Rasaan (Busta Rhymes). Meanwhile, Shaft has got to track down the one murder witness (Toni Collette) who can put all of his enemies away for good even as the toughest killers in the city close in on him.