Like a lot of blaxploitation flicks, my enthusiasm for this waned as it went on. Surely in part the inspiration for Django Unchained, Fred Williamson stars as Boss, who along with his partner Amos (D'Urville Martin) works as a bounty hunter. They give up that gig pretty quickly, though, when they arrive upon a town without a sheriff. They take over that position forcibly, and end up having to fight a gang of outlaws who terrorize the town (and have to deal with the offended white people, too). The big problem is, the protagonists are kind of jerks. Sure, we can sympathize with the fact that they are oppressed, but when they start locking up citizens for not saying hello to them, they kind of start to lose their moral superiority. It doesn't help that the DVD looked like garbage, either. Fred Williamson is still pretty bad-ass, and the title song and funky music are, as is often the case with these movies, the best thing about it.
Review of Boss Nigger
