Three the Hard Way

I saw the Blaxploitation film Three the Hard Way at a viewing last night. This film had everything! Karate, dirty cops, white supremacists catching a beatdown, a crazy plot to poison black people in Detroit, DC, and LA via each city's water filtration system. There was such a great mix of ass-kicking, explosions, and craziness in this movie to make it highly entertaining. The three main actors, Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, and Jim Kelly, were great. Fred Williamson was at last night's viewing of the film and he talked a little beforehand about how there was a need at the time the film was made (1974) to show black male role models and that's what the actors wanted to do with this film. No white guy swooped in to save the day. Three black guys were the heroes here, saving the black populations of Detroit, DC, and LA from being poisoned. (The poison the white supremacist doctor created was supposed to only kill black people so if you were biracial and drank the tainted water, maybe you had a fighting chance for survival!)