"Three the Hard Way" is one of the best Blacksploitation films of the 1970s. Interestingly, it was also clearly the inspiration for the 2009 comedy "Black Dynamite" (though there is no Fiendish Dr Wu or Tricky Dick in "Three")! Both are well worth your time and are a lot of fun.
When the film begins, an injured black man makes his way to his old friend, Jimmy (Jim Brown). He's hurt badly and is taken to the hospital. However, some guys sneak into the injured guy's room later and kill him...right there in the hospital. What is so important a secret that you'd do this? Well, to help figure all this out, Jim calls in his friends Jagger (Fred Williamson) and Mister Keyes (Jim Kelly). But when things heat up and a group of assassins tries to take all three of them out, Jagger calls in for reinforcements to fight the evil Mr. Feather (Jay Robinson) and his henchmen.
The film has one of the most insane plots I've ever seen in a Blacksploitation movie--so using it as the inspiration for the mega- goofy "Black Dynamite" wasn't a bad idea. It's paranoid and a bit weird but it's also extremely well made, exciting and stars three of the very best black action stars of the era. How could you go wrong with Jim Brown, Jim Kelly and Fred Williamson?! Despite trucks blowing up for almost no reason and the loudest .45 in film history, this picture has it all!
When the film begins, an injured black man makes his way to his old friend, Jimmy (Jim Brown). He's hurt badly and is taken to the hospital. However, some guys sneak into the injured guy's room later and kill him...right there in the hospital. What is so important a secret that you'd do this? Well, to help figure all this out, Jim calls in his friends Jagger (Fred Williamson) and Mister Keyes (Jim Kelly). But when things heat up and a group of assassins tries to take all three of them out, Jagger calls in for reinforcements to fight the evil Mr. Feather (Jay Robinson) and his henchmen.
The film has one of the most insane plots I've ever seen in a Blacksploitation movie--so using it as the inspiration for the mega- goofy "Black Dynamite" wasn't a bad idea. It's paranoid and a bit weird but it's also extremely well made, exciting and stars three of the very best black action stars of the era. How could you go wrong with Jim Brown, Jim Kelly and Fred Williamson?! Despite trucks blowing up for almost no reason and the loudest .45 in film history, this picture has it all!