This film is RUBBISH!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry you hated it, great film,loved the story. I guess you gotta be from NY to appreciate it. Sh#t, I remember the "OLE MILL", but it wasn't weapons, just fists.

"Whatchu doing on our turf punk? Got a message for smoky"

I dont know where you're from or who you are but, to appreciate a movie like this i'd argue you'd first of all have to appreciate the blaxploitation genre and the time in which it was made. I just watched this and Spook who sat by the door back-to-back yesterday, both for the first time... WOW. Although Sonny Carson was made in the 70's which tempts you compare it to the blaxploitation genre, I wouldn't call it a 'down and out' blaxploitation flick due to the depth, originality, emotion and strength of story line.

However, an apprection for the genre in general helps in accepting the acting, lingo and over exaggerations commonly associated with the genre e.g. if your gonna watch a old skool kung fu flick, you cant trash it because someone's avenging the death of his master or the bad guy gets killed by an unlikely candidate due to intense honing of his style/skill!!
If you can work with these 'hitch's', there is nothing left but an engrossing, very moving flick that will have you transfixed til the end.
I'm a black man from london and i draw similarities with many of the 'coming of age' issues highlighted in the flick... had me f'ed up inside.

BOTTOM LINE, even if u didn't give this a 10, i dont see how anyone can truely justify calling the flick "RUBBISH". If you had an apreciation for black cinema in general, this wouldn't be your standpoint.

i loved it

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Disagree, this is a Good film.

When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

Huh, who would of thought an American 1970s Blaxploitation film wouldn't appeal to an upper class English woman?

I think you're full of rubbish chrisegsl. No go back to your tea party and yelling at your maid