Shaft in Africa (1973)

Shaft in Africa is the third film in the Shaft Blaxploitation trilogy after Shaft (which I've seen) and Shaft's Big Score (which I haven't). This movie's just okay, I found myself missing the urban grit and means streets aesthetic of the first film. This is Shaft's 'fish out of water story' and while setting much of the action in Africa, and the climax in France, was at times interesting, it mostly felt kind of forced. Though Richard Roundtree's still cool and there are the requisite sexy ladies, add the international conspiracy of villains and Shaft's various foreign handlers and this feels more like a James Bond movie staring Shaft then it does the original film. Still it was Shaft, so  **1/2