Sometimes
known as The Boss, Boss, or the movie I add asterisks to, Boss Ni**er
is a Blacksploitation written, produced, and starring former NFL
player Fred Williamson as Boss Ni**er. His partner is Amos played by
D'Urville Martin who directed Dolemite. This movie had no right to be
as good as it was. I was expecting to laugh my ass off at how bad it
was, but it is really a well made and directed movie.
The
director Jack Arnold has directed classic movies like Creature From The Black Lagoon, and The Incredible Shrinking Man as well as
the TV shows The Fall Guy, The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's
Island, and Wonder Woman. This makes a huge difference. I know there
are far more popular Westerns like anything with Clint Eastwood or
even the classic Django. But this blew that movie out of the water.
Even the fact that n-bombs are dropped constantly and the music is
straight up funk, it is still good.
Boss
and Amos are a couple of bounty hunters that stumble across a bounty
that also has a contract to be the new sheriff in a small town called
San Miguel. They show up on their horses and people are beyond
shocked. The mayor tries to tell them to go but they blackmail him.
Next thing you know they are charging people money for breaking their
rules or tossing them in jail. Rules like using the n-word or not
saying hello. Sounds fair to me.
I've
seen a lot of movies like this and am shocked that it took me
stumbling across the theme song online and loving it to find out that
this even existed. Once you get past the title that makes it hard to
discuss this movie around people it is pretty damned good.
No comments:
Post a Comment