Shaft is a 2000 American action-crime film directed by John Singleton, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Pat Hingle, Toni Collette, Busta Rhymes, Vanessa L. Williams, and Mekhi Phifer. This film is not a remake of the 1971 film of the same name, but rather a sequel, since it features Richard Roundtree briefly reprising his role as the original John Shaft. Jackson's John Shaft character is the nephew of the...
Shaft takes out the vehicle that was attempting to force them off the road. R...
Shaft makes a few head motions to Rasaan, so Rassan gets Frank out of the roo...
Shaft isn't happy to see the number of reporters that are aware of Wade Jr.'s...
The movie opens when Shaft arrives on the scene. He's filled in by a uniform ...
Shaft leans forward and responds to Peoples with a smile.
In the midst of Rassan's celebration, Peoples comes from a side street in a d...
In a strategy session with his father and his lawyers, Wade Jr. is displeased...
Shaft informs Wade that, contrary to what he thought, he is going to be spend...
Shaft shoves Peoples up against a police van and frisks him. Peoples is aloof.
Both vehicle crash simultaneously. Shaft crawls out and checks Peoples vehicl...
Tray's friend continues to give Shaft her account of the friction between Tre...
Walter's stepmother enters the room while they are discussing the case. Walte...
After putting Wade Jr. in the holding cell, Shaft looks in at Peoples, who ha...
Peoples sits on the toilet with the door open. His boy hands Wade a paper bag...
Outside the restaurant, Shaft pushes back at the uniform on the scene when he...
Peoples insults Shaft while Shaft frisks him on the street outside Peoples' b...
The smile disappears from Shafts face, still leaning forward toward Peoples,...
Shaft is sitting on the corner of Vasquez's desk. They are trying to recruit ...
Ivy continues her account of how Trey sat quietly for a time listening to War...
On the stoop in front of her building, Terry tells Shaft what she needs in ex...
In a room of Rassan's crib, as if in a trance, Diane gives Shaft an account o...
Peoples curses Shaft when he walks away from the holding cell that's left hol...
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