Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that l... Read allThree black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
Kene Holiday
- Albert Washingtonas Albert Washington
- (as Kene Holliday)
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans. —frankfob2@yahoo.com
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Disturbing film
Badge of the Assassin benefits from strong performances by James Woods and Yaphet Kotto, but that shouldn't be surprising. Sadly the film reflects the 'colour blind' attitudes of the time it was made, a time when Americans were willfully trying to ignore the twin legacies of slavery and racism. We are given little (if any) insight into the minds of the revolutionaries, who are portrayed as cold blooded maniacs. Which they may or may not be...but the one dimensional characters depicted here are not satisying. There is no attempt to place their actions in context or to explain their motivation. Perhaps that's too much to expect from a TV movie, but I suspect in a decade or two this will look as anachronistic as the antics of Willie Best look to us today.
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- JohnSeal
- Feb 27, 2001
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