So John Shaft (Roundtree) had a brother that we've never seen? I guess it would have been interesting to show who he was, since he's probably deceased at this point.
"I recently watched the movie that came out back 2000 and honestly outside of Sam Jackson and Christian Bale as the villain it really isn't that great of a film. I see why they never made a sequel and hearing about this doesn't give me much hope either, especially with the casting Jessie T. Usher who was just horrible in Independence Day: Resurgence. I actually didn't mind him on Survivor's Remorse, but some tv actors just don't translate well to the big screen."
For me, Bale's blue-blood bigot was something of a weak link in the film-- one of several, really. I enjoyed Jeffrey Wright's Dominican dope dealer more.
Conceptually, I was thrown off severely by the creative choice to make this Shaft a police detective-- Jackson playing a cop in any other film is fine, but in the original Shaft, the main character doesn't see himself as being part of "the system" [police, courts], nor does he see himself part of "the underworld" [gangsters]. This was a major misstep, and I can recall at the time an interview with the screenwriter who openly said that he couldn't wrap his head around the notion of a black man who was not a police officer in Rudy Giuliani's New York "running around and shooting things up" (paraphrase). [Well, who said that RG had to be the mayor in this movie's version of New York? Oh, well..]
Vanessa Williams was fine (pun intended) as the nominal love interest, but of course, absolutely none of the "smooth player" aspects of the original Shaft gets to be embodied by Jackson (yes, there was that throwaway semi-scene in the opening credits, but come on, really??).