Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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.

sol **SPOILERS*** After Chuck's, Jim Kelly, team of karate fighters win the L.A Tournament of Champions in karate in a winner take all match the mobster Rossi, Peter Dane, who had the matches fixed for Chuck's opponents to win takes off with the cash,$400,000.00, leaving Chuck's team high and dry! As for Chuck himself he get worked over and shot by Rossi's thugs when he tried to get the winners share, all of it, of the 400 G's that his team so rightfully won.With Chuck's good friend and promoter of the karate matches Ralph, Richard Roundtree, getting nowhere with Rossi who's planning to skip town with the cash he's reluctantly forced to call for reinforcement in the persons of his bad a** butt kicker friends from New York J & Cal, Jim "Slaughter" Brown & Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, to help him get the job done. And they do it with both fists and guns as well as style.***SPOILERS*** Far better the the movies prequel "Three the Hard Way" in that it doesn't overdo the action scenes and gives the film a much better storyline to follow with the big three, Brown Williamson & Roundtree, intimidating their enemies far more with their presence not their fists or guns. Speaking of guns both Brown & Williamson, J & Cal, have in the movie hand guns with barrels as long as M-16 assault rifles! In the end the boys rescue both Chuck and his girlfriend Trei,Paula Sills, who were on the run from Rossi's thugs whom the two Blaxploition heroes made mince meat and swiss cheese out of.The one thing that was a bit strange in the movie is just how J & Cal as well as the entire cast of the movie seemed to all have all ended in what seemed like New York City, we get to see a number of scenes of the NYC World Trade Center, from all the way in L.A for the films second half without the scrip explaining how? Was it tela-transportation or just bad film editing!

lotsafun One Down, Two to Go may rank a few notches beneath other celluloid team-ups with these stars, but it definitlely has it's share of fun moments. Jim Kelly's character is wounded for most of the movie, but it's always a pleasure to watch big bad Jim "SLAUGHTER" Brown team-up with Fred "The HAMMER" Williamson! Especially when Richard "SHAFT" Roundtree is in the mix! One Down is no Three the Hard Way, but there's just nothing like the spectacle of the Hammer uttering the immortal line "Back off Mojo! You may know Kung Fu but I know Gun Fu!"! LOL! One Down, Two to Go is a cheesy blast of fun that goes best with favorite beverages, good popcorn, and a room full of rowdy B-movie lovers.

Lexuses71 In this hoped for "revival" of the Blaxploitation genre, you have the superstars of Black '70s cinema: Jim Brown (always with the biggest gun with the longest barrel), Jim Kelly (who I always thought was a posturing joke), Richard Roundtree (still looking good post-Shaft), and Fred "Da Hammer" Williamson (so cool, he has ice dripping down his back!).Only Roundtree has kept his actor's dignity of the four. Fred still cranks out his Po Boy Productions straight to video flicks, but I will say he still does well in Europe. These low budget films actually are profitable there. I'll give him that. Brown has had his own share of woes in the press in recent years and just walks through this one. Jim Kelly has to be thee WORST actor of the group. GI Joe (with the Kung-Fu grip) could whoop him easily. (In one scene, his woman is getting gang-banged, and he's getting his KF stance on against one bad guy). And Roundtree didn't embarass himself, and has at least has maintained a long list of character roles, most notably the "Shaft" update with Samual L. Jackson in 2000.This is one turd of a movie, lovingly directed by Williamson. Bland direction, hokey lines, low budget hoettas, you name it. Yet it's considered a cult favorite, by whom I don't know. I'll skip the plot. It's so banal it doesn't bear repeating. On the level of a Cynthia Rothrock film. But the best scene is at the end when Fred "Hammer" sticks one of his trademark cigars into a pooch's mouth.So there you have it. Gets a 2 out of 5 from me.And most of the soundtrack was "moonlighted" by Jazz Fusion keyboardist Rodney Franklin, but credited to others.

emm Four top actors from the 70s blaxploitation era starred in what should be considered as a reunion. It looked like this film was made and released way too late long after the genre's heydays. Obviously, it doesn't feel like a classic 70s show at all. Don't expect much from Jim Kelly, who gets shot twice in the shoulder and remains helpless throughout the rest of the film. That leaves Williamson and Brown to do the bidding. They seemed to be veterans together in doing this. Unfortunately, the awful slow pace of the action bogs this one down along with a serious lack of originality and too many jazzy soul tunes interferes the whole thing. Richard Roundtree (SHAFT) only appears during the final minutes. The ending was absolutely catchy, and should've proven something about the actors' future following the making of this picture. It's interesting to note that the two Jims and Fred Williamson (who directed this) were cast together in THREE THE HARD WAY, which wasn't the greatest 70s blaxploitation movie around. ONE DOWN, TWO TO GO was a nice try at reviving the soul-crazed genre out of the grave, but it fails miserably at the end.