Brotherhood Of Death

Three African Americans are on their way by bus to join the Army and the fight in Vietnam. On the way to the Army recruiting center, they stop for gas and a white couple stop at the gas station as well. The white male makes a racist comment about how blacks mate and reproduce like mad. This leads to a showdown at the gas station and threats exchanged. After spending some time in the Army and serving their country proudly in Vietnam, they return home to find that racism is as big a problem as it was before the Army.

One afternoon when a young black man is beat up and his girlfriend is raped by a group of whites, the three men who spent time in the service decide it is time to do something about the racism in Kincaid County. So they find out who committed the rape and set out to teach him a lesson. In the middle of the night, they beat Leroy who is the leader of the racist pigs within an inch of his pathetic life. Leroy tries to play it off to the lack Kincaid County Sherriff that what happened to him was wrong and he did nothing to deserve it. However the Sherriff was on to him and let him know that if Leroy knew what was good for him, he would keep his mouth shut because everyone knew it was he that raped the black girl.

After this the three ex-army soldiers meet with a local preacher who leads others in his church to step up and make a change in the community by voting people out of office that will not protect the rights of blacks in the community. By the bus load, blacks are showing up to register to vote. When the Klan find out what is going on, they set fire to the voter registration office. It’s war! The war takes some difficult twist when it is learned that the county prosecutor is the leader of the Klan and the county deputy is a member as well.

The first thirty minutes of the movie is very choppy. The editing is not very good and the story falls apart for a short while. Unless you are really paying attention, you can loose track of the story and wish you found something else to watch. However around the forty-five minute mark, the story regains steam and recovers nicely and keeps you interested till the very end.

Foxy Brown

She is a one woman hit squad! Pam Grier is handed a much better script in Foxy Brown than she was Coffy. Coffy was dark and sexy but all of the actors and actresses overacted way too much. Foxy Brown is about a woman who is out for revenge on a female pimp for having her boyfriend, an ex-undercover drug agent, shot and killed. To get even, Foxy, played by Grier, knows her brother was the looser who blew the whistle on where to find her boyfriend and kill him. So Foxy goes after her brother to find out who he is working for and get revenge.

Foxy joins a call girl service to get on the inside and get information on those that killed her man. As it turns out, the judges in the community are on the take. The call girls service the judges in exchange for a good time and then the drug lords and the call girl agency are off the hook. Foxy is great at taking matters into her own hands and humiliates one of the judges she is to service by forcing him out the door and into the hotel hallway with nothing on but his shirt! Needless to say, he got what he deserved from a group of angry and offended women!




The violence in this movie is not nearly as strong or as gory as in Coffy. The acting and the story is much better as well. The funniest scene in the movie finds Coffy in the hospital room with her boyfriend. His entire face is bandaged up and Foxy and he decide this would be a great play to get down and get funky! The Aid walks in and catches them in the act and not only tells him that was a no-no, but slaps his you know what when she pulls off his gown to give him a bed bath. I guess he was making a point and she knocked it down. The nurse aid took a page out of Foxy's book. Great film Love it!