Although most of the action in Stirling Silliphant’s screenplay seems to have been manufactured by computer, it at least moves swiftly and with a shrewdly cynical understanding of what its audiences will want.

It's quite a merry progress, with Frank Finlay doing one of his outrageous cinematic villains... If I thought the movie was serious for a moment I'd find it rather retrograde.

Richard Roundtree is at it again.

The latest M.G.M. John Shaft thriller is about as effective as yesterday's bowl of oatmeal.