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<p>Regardless of the mixed feelings that <b>TapeHead</b> has about <b>Quentin Tarantino</b> as a filmmaker, we like his pet Disney subsidiary, <b>Rolling Thunder Films</b>. Let's face it, any company that releases <a href="../beyond/index.html" target="_top"><i>The Beyond</a></i>, <i>Hard Core Logo</i>, and <i>Chung King Express</i> in the space of a year deserves props, and so, I watched the Blaxploitation flick <i>Detroit 9000</i>, Rolling Thunder's latest release, with this track record in mind.</p>
<p>I can't say that I was disappointed, necessarily, just that I found the film interesting but not absolutely entertaining. The thing about Blaxploitation flicks, at least for me, is this: they might have dime store acting minimal plots, and barrels of low grade cheese, but they generally work for me because they gots attitude. I mean if you've got someone like <b>Richard Roundtree</b> or <b>Pam Grier</b> on the screen, then you don't need plot or acting because their attitude fills up the screen in place of it. Roundtree ain't no <b>Gielgud</b>, but Gielgud could never, in a million years, play <b>John Shaft</b>. No Attitude.</p>
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