Black Fist

Black Fist (1975) is a movie I recently watched on Amazon Prime. The storyline is about a man who has survived in the streets and believes he can make the money he deserves and start his own business by becoming a street fighter. He thinks once he has enough money to start his own business it will be easy to get out of the street fighter business...he's wrong. This movie was directed by Timothy Galfas (Sunnyside) and stars Richard Lawson (Poltergeist), Denise Gordy (Toy Soldiers), Philip Michael Thomas (Miami Vice) and Annazette Chase (The Mack). There's some good elements to this choppy film. I really liked his messaging and side bar conversations to make it on his own without the white man's help. I thought it was interesting throughout the movie how his wife's desire was to survive and his was to succeed. The slang and soundtrack was also entertaining and fun. The storyline was inconsistent but I enjoyed waiting to see what's going to happen next to Lawson's character, who was awesome in this. I would score this a 6-6/5/10.