However, his character in "TNT" is totally insignificant to the movie's plot, making him the film's most dispensable character. ![]() A relatively young Robert Guillaume makes his movie debut in "TNT" as Jordan, a black American writer who befriends Priest in Rome. Yet, through no fault of Browne's of course, you can't help but wonder why in the world would a high-ranking African dignitary want to tap Priest, a man he barely knew anything about, for such a complicated, crucial paramilitary assignment. Lamine Sonko, the African official who hires Priest to man his country's gun smuggling operation. As a considerably more polished acting professional, veteran actor Roscoe Lee Browne delivers the movie's best performance as the eloquent, outspoken Dr. Although a stunningly attractive woman, her acting skills are poor, so much so that her highly unprofessional performance in this movie alone instantly relegates it to B-film status. Sheila Frazier reprises her role from the original movie as Priest's loyal, understanding girlfriend. Interesting enough, Alex Haley wrote the screenplay for "Super Fly TNT." (Haley of course would go on to become a household name as author of the classic, best-selling novel "Roots," several years after the release of this movie.) However, the screenplay he wrote for this movie, much like O'Neal's incompetent movie direction, is listless, providing few, if any, moments of intense drama and intrigue. Much of the movie is confusing and vague, with scenes so pointless and tediously elongated that the only positive aspect of it is that the movie viewer can easily empathize with Priest's ongoing dilemma of being ceaselessly bored. ![]() Although O'Neal's performance in the original Super Fly movie was the stuff of legend, and he was one of the better actors of the 70s' Blaxploitation movie era, his direction of this movie, however, is overtly and highly inept. Ron O'Neal, who stars in the lead role, directed and co-wrote the story line for "Super Fly TNT," and therein would most likely explain why this movie is such a cinematic atrocity. With Sonko's sermon about international black unity riding his conscience, coupled with his disillusionment with retired living, Priest eventually accepts the job, much to the dismay of his significant other, Georgia, and subsequently boards a plane to Sonko's African country to embark on the arms smuggling mission. Initially, Priest is reluctant to do so, and Sonko prevails upon him that as a black man he has a moral duty to aide his African brothers in their time of need. Lamine Sonko, tries to encourage him to take the arms smuggling assignment. Apparently struck by Priest's charismatic appearance (if nothing else), the African official, Dr. ![]() However, it is at the end of one of these card games that he meets an African dignitary looking for someone to oversee a gun smuggling operation, which a military unit in his country has recently botched. He suffers from incessant boredom, with gambling in nightly poker games with Italian businessmen as his lone source of interest. Although now financially secure, having successfully "run down the fantastic number" in a major drug deal while in New York City, he finds that retired live in Europe isn't all that it's cracked up to be. In this, the second chapter of the Super Fly saga, Priest relocates overseas to Europe where he is now retired from hustling and lives in Rome with his girlfriend, Georgia. This 1973 sequel to the blockbuster '72 hit movie is a huge disappointment that doesn't even remotely-in terms of both quality and appeal-replicate the preceding action-packed, street savvy tale about a highly charismatic but disillusioned black Harlem cocaine dealer, Priest. Without a doubt, one of the worst movies, let alone sequels, that you will ever see, even by Blaxploitation film standards.
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