Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Executscan Expected more

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

JLRVancouver Admittedly, the list of blaxploitation westerns is not long, but 'Boss N-word' is actually a pretty good low-budget anti-hero western in its own right. The film is kind of a blend of Shaft and any of the numerous spaghetti westerns that came out after Leone's successes. The look is typical '70s western (including women's hairstyles that appeared a century out of date), the music urban bad-ass, and the dialogue an amusing mix of tough-guy menace and ironic wisecracking (frequently including the N-word - a hypothetical remake in the 80s would have probably starred Eddie Murphy as the deputy). Times have certainly changed: the actual title of the film was not used on TCM (where I watched it), despite the offensive second word (prohibited from this review), being featured prominently in the opening credits, the theme song, and the script.

chaos-rampant Boss N#gger is definitely not a prime sample of either western or blaxploitation but it's a genre crossover I'm glad happened because if it didn't happen back in the day it probably wouldn't ever. Perhaps the biggest problem in the movie is Fred Williamson's script, which bears all the marks of an inexperienced writer: too much exposition, flat characterization, scenes that seem to exist only to take the plot from point A to point B. Well, I guess few people are going to see a movie called "Boss N#gger" for its story, but it's details like these that make the difference between Coffy and the multitude of forgettable blaxploits of the early seventies. Williamson's script but be throwaway but when he dons his black cowboy hat and cheroot and transforms into black bounty-hunter Boss, he's as badass as he's ever been. Along with his associate D'Urville Martin ("Sheba Baby", "Dolemite", "Black Caesar") they rescue a black girl from the clutches of bandits before riding into a lawless town terrorized by a gang of cutthroats. He elects himself sheriff and rails against the corrupt mayor of the town and all the bigotry around him. Boss N#gger's seems to exist for no other reason than sticking it to "the man" and in that aspect the balance is heavily tipped towards the blaxploitation end of the equation. This is a blaxploit movie that only happens to take place in the old west. It's still a fairly entertaining diversion with quotable dialogue and all the amusing shenanigans one can expect from having a black sheriff in a town filled with white bigots. A kid is ridden down in slow motion, Williamson says things like "we've got some more whities to catch" and "Mayor, have somebody clean up ma office", D'Urville locks up the bank president for tearing up a note and when the mayor demands he's released he locks him up too for disturbing the peace. What starts as a funky, frolicking action western becomes a lot more violent in the final third and ends on quite a downbeat tone that comes eerily close to Sergio Corbucci's The Great Silence. Jack Arnold ("Creature from the Black Lagoon", "The Incredible Shrinking Man") directs.

zombizombizombi I love it I saw the trailer on a DVD I have 42 street forever and had to get this its a great blaxploitation/exploitation movie the DVD sucks and hopefully someday someone will put out a proper DVD.The story is about two black bounty hunters that take over a whit town with out a sheriff .The white folks are not happy Fred Williamson's character as the boss rocks he is so the boss ni**ger I will not spoil this do find it and yes like I said the DVD is not good the transfer is just OK bad color not framed correctly its put in full frame and is taken from a VHS master and put on DVD I will say this tho with the bad transfer it does give you that grind house feel my score a 8 its funny as hell!!!!!!!!!

Infofreak Fred Williamson was one of the greatest of the 1970s blaxploitation stars, but as cool as he is, he can't make this one anything more than very average. Williamson and frequent co-star D'urville Martin ('Dolemite') play bounty hunters on the trail of no-good varmint William Smith ('Invasion Of The Bee Girls', 'The Ultimate Warrior', 'Maniac Cop') who bully the mayor of a small town (Peckinpah regular R.G. Armstrong) into letting them become sheriff and deputy. They make sport of the uptight white townsfolk, grab as much cash as they can, and wait for an opportunity to get their man. 'Boss N*gger' can't decide whether it wants to be a serious western or a spoof of the genre, and the comedy is broad, recycles much of the Cleavon Little schtick from Mel Brooks' 'Blazing Saddles', and is basically just not that funny. But when it takes the material seriously it shows promise, and seeing Fred Williamson battle b-grade legend William Smith is worth the rental. Williamson scripted as well as starred, and would have been better advised not to. It's the lame script that really lets this one down. The cast is good, and the direction, by 1950s monster movie favourite Jack Arnold, is strong enough. Williamson's charisma keeps this afloat, but to be honest, it's nothing special.