FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Michael Ledo This was a film that encouraged black people to stay out of the military in the closing statements.Johnny Barrows (Fred Williamson) was 2 years all-state running back and earned a silver star in the military. After being arrested for being drunk while black, Johnny reluctantly enters a mob war as a white on white hit man who never gets so much as a grass stain on his pants.Classic Fred Williamson urban action film. Also stars Roddy McDowall and Elliot Gould. Soap Opera star Jenny Sherman provides token eye candy.

Kyle McElravy In the mid-1970s, Fred Williamson decided to form his own production company, Po'Boy Productions, to produce his own films, without any studio interference. He had already produced and starred in BOSS N***** and ADIOS AMIGO!, a western comedy that featured Richard Pryor as his sidekick. This latest entry is a very amateurish revenge picture with an unlikely all-star cast and limited production values, but hey, it has Fred Williamson in it, what's not to like about it?The film centers on a loner of a man, Johnny Barrows (Williamson), who is dishonorably discharged from the army after striking his vicious commanding officer O'Malley (played by martial artist Aaron Banks). He returns home to Los Angeles, but his welcome consists of getting mugged by two criminals and then getting arrested by the police for vagrancy. He eventually is bailed out and gets a job cleaning restrooms at a gas station by a racist redneck of a jerk, Richard (R.G. Armstrong). His attitude takes Johnny to a boiling point and he winds up in jail again, but a local good-guy crime boss (Stuart Whitman) bails Johnny out and offers him a proposition to be a hit man to wipe out a rival crime family. He accepts it, but soon regrets it when various near-misses complicate his quest to rub out the other bosses, which makes us believe a familiar face is responsible for it.MEAN JOHNNY BARROWS is a bad film, but Williamson, at least, gives it his best shot despite the disjointed script and occasional poor direction. The supporting cast also brightens up the movie, Roddy McDowall, Luther Adler, Mike Henry, Leon Isaac Kennedy, and even Elliott Gould shows up in a comic role as a fellow tramp who shows Johnny the ropes about surviving on the streets. Worth a look.

dbborroughs Slow dull Fred Williamson directed film about the title character,played by Williamson, getting tossed from the army for punching a white officer who tried to kill him and ending up in the middle of a mafia war between two rival families. Just okay action (not counting the laughable martial arts) and okay exposition sequences are done in by dead pacing and dull direction. This film feels wickedly padded with several sequences of Williamson on the street trying to find a job set to meaningful music. It stops the film dead and I wanted to reach for the remote. The sad thing about this film is that the basic plot is very good and it has some nice twists. The problem was that I kind of stopped really watching and let the film drift into the background, only coming back to the film when something interesting happened, which was then followed by my drifting out again. Not really worth a look.

chas77 Fred Williamson is a charismatic actor but he shouldn't be allowed behind the camera for the simple reason that he has no clue as how to direct a film. I had heard that his earlier films were better than the direct-to-vid films he slapped together in the '80s but this film, made just as the blaxploitation craze was winding down, is beyond belief.I'd like to think that he had a crew of 5 people: 2 for sound, one high school student to do the lighting, an A.D., and himself...oh yeah, I guess he'd need a cameraman. Well maybe one of the actors handled that when they weren't needed in front of the camera. That might explain a lot. This is, technically, a truly horrible film: the sound, lighting, camera are all beyond amateur.What really takes the cake is the inclusion of good actors like Roddy McDowell, Elliot Gould (as one reviewer noted below -- this is the best scene and it makes no sense but is welcome anyway) and Stuart Whitman. Were these actors behind in their car payments? If you want good blaxploitation and you like Williamson, check out "Bucktown" or "Black Caesar" or any of the early '70s films he starred in before he thought he knew how to direct. This is an embarrassment to all the cast and crew (except for Gould who is hilarious!).I'd love to hear from a crew member who worked on this dreck. I'm sure it was a nightmare.