Superfly

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Superfly

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Released Jun 13, 2018

1h 56m

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Cocaine kingpin Youngblood Priest realizes that it's time to get out of the game after surviving a violent attack from a crazed rival. Hoping for one last score, Priest and his partner travel to Mexico to arrange a deal. The career criminal now finds himself trying to outmaneuver the cartel, two corrupt police officers and all the double-crossers that threaten his path to freedom.

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Critics Consensus

Superfly updates the blaxploitation original with a stylish remake that's exciting and visually arresting enough to offer its own slickly staged action rewards, but disappointingly short on social subtext.

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

The clothes are great. The cribs are well-appointed. The fight sequences, although too few, are nicely choreographed. Yet none of it seems to coalesce into a movie.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 18, 2018

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Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

Director X...can't seem to differentiate between the strip-club aesthetics of a rap video and the demands of a full-length feature film.

Rated: 1/5

Sep 14, 2018

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Linda Marric

HeyUGuys

An unlikable misfire of a film, with only a few decent performances on hand to make it worth your while.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 13, 2018

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M.N. Miller

Ready Steady Cut

I’ll say this about X’s blaxploitation update-It’s a solid action film with a concise point of view.

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 16, 2022

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

SuperFly is a moderately flashy, mostly fun update of its 46 year old source material but also a reminder of how little has changed in that time.

Dec 10, 2020

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Steven Prokopy

Third Coast Review

Director X knows how to make a film look impressive and beautifully composed, but he seems lost when it comes to working with actors. The ingredients for a much better film are all there on screen, but nothing quite hits the way it should.

Jun 15, 2020

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Qiniso S

Not at all emotionally engaging, it's a distant movie that is predictable, the acting is mostly novice.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/23/24

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dave e

I liked the film, it was a fun ride. The fight scenes were good and the story is about drug dealing and what happens in the end to most kingpins.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

12/15/23

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Audience Member

This was a good movie and the actors said that the movie had to filmed in four weeks. Not by their choice and Trevor Jackson said the character was in his late 20's but it was an update version of the Superfly movies from the 70s. I just hate that it won't be a sequel. The movie made 20 million dollars off a small budget movie.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Audience Member

A bit stylized, but that was the intention, afaik. Good entertainment, in fact far better than expected!

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Audience Member

Liked it. The script wasn't the best. But I think the actors did the best they could do with what they had. Trevor Jackson, Jason Mitchell and Jennifer Morrison were the glue that held the plot together. It had some memorable moments in it.. I rewound a couple times. 😂 What I didn't like Is how they had the women being the weak link and snitching😒🙄that seemed like lazy writing. But I still liked it...🙂

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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The lead just didn't carry enough weight to exude a boss, like a child trying on Dad's clothes. Add to that a storyline which is basically little more than hyper-masculine fantasy and you've wasted 90 minutes of your life that you can't get back.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Synopsis

Cocaine kingpin Youngblood Priest realizes that it's time to get out of the game after surviving a violent attack from a crazed rival. Hoping for one last score, Priest and his partner travel to Mexico to arrange a deal. The career criminal now finds himself trying to outmaneuver the cartel, two corrupt police officers and all the double-crossers that threaten his path to freedom.

Director: Director X.
Producer: Joel Silver, Future
Screenwriter: Alex Tse
Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Silver Pictures, Columbia Pictures
Rating: R (Language Throughout|Drug Content|Nudity|Strong Sexuality|Violence)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 13, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 28, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $20.5M
Runtime: 1h 56m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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