Rudy Ray Moore burst onto the scene with this outrageous, cheesy, entertaining blaxploitation movie that makes up for in spirit what it lacks in budget. A well-meaning independent feature solely designed to entertain audiences, it feature the titular character as he's released from jail to go on a crusade to bring down various evil drug dealers. Moore is certainly a force to be reckoned with; hardly good-looking or charismatic, but making up for that in sheer brute force and humour. The film suffers from the usual production value issues and slightly stilted feel, but the narrative works just fine and it's certainly never boring, instead one of the more memorable and definitive examples of its kind from the 1970s. A sequel, THE HUMAN TORNADO, followed.
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