![]() ![]() (SPOILERS AHEAD->)The arc of the movie hinges on Johnny's love for a woman (a WHITE woman, no less), which we are supposed to understand leads to him finally agreeing to work for the mob in order to avenge her rape. The main idea of the story is Johnny trying to get a real job, and resist the mobsters who are offering him big money to become a hit man. Then I thought "Well, he's just so COOL that he won't even dignify those cops by talking to them," but then that falls apart as well and. For a while I thought he was dazed by being beaten earlier, but by the time he gets to the police station he should be more coherent. He is arrested and tormented by the police to which he won't even give his name or say anything. It takes a while as the film unfolds to realize that he's not, as usually happens in these movies, going to get p***ed and get even. ![]() as he tries to get a job and resist joining the mob after being dishonorably discharged from the army for striking a white officer (after being, to put it lightly, provoked). Rather than a typical revenge fantasy (nothing wrong with those, but.) this film follows Johnny B. Whether it lives up to all that ambition. I was surprised at what different and ambitous movie this is. ![]() I got this film as part of this budget "Bad Brothas, Mean Mothas" boxed set, and watched this one first, because it stars Fred "Super-stud" Willaimson.
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