How sad is this?

Expected more

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

When "The Guy from Harlem" was made, the blaxploitation genre was all but dead, and its subsequent release put one of the final nails in the genre's coffin. Though it's not the worst offering of the genre (that would have to be "Blackenstein"), it is all the same a really terrible movie. It goes wrong in every way you can think of. The script is bad, ranging from awkward exposition to the story suddenly changing to another direction midway through. The acting is really amateurish, from sleepwalking performances to people shouting out their lines. If you are looking for action, forget it - there's only one (brief) action sequence in the first half of the movie, and while there's more in the second half, all the action is unexciting and badly done. If you are looking for sex and nudity, the movie also disappoints - there's very little of this material. The direction is third rate, from the director resorting to the same camera angles over and over to the lifeless feeling found in every scene. In fact, that's the biggest problem of the movie - it's really slow moving and boring. 90% of the movie consists of the characters having boring conversations. Oh, the amateurish nature of the movie does occasionally induce a chuckle, but otherwise the movie almost made me fall asleep - and I watched it in the morning!

The 1970s had some bad fashions for sure. Occasionally a man might wear stripes with plaid. A hairstyle might be slightly over ambitious, but this excellent movie takes it a tiny step further. I am sure this movie was bankrolled by Crayola to introduce its Fall lineup of mismatch colors. Every scene in every room mixes a pastel Florentine curve wallpaper with a day glow shag rug. And that somehow looks tame compared to the men's suits. The fight scenes appear to have been done slowly and sped up and then done quickly and slowed down. The producer did not have a budget for a second take of any scene. I know that, because if there were a second take they certainly would have used that instead of what they have in this horrid cinematic slop trough. I think there might be a worse film somewhere. If they did a sequel to this it could be worse, maybe. Hopefully the Producers and cast members are still doing hard time somewhere for Assault on a movie audience. The writer should have been sent to a juvenile facility to be rehabilitated. I am sure the writer could not have been more than 11 judging from the dialog. Oh, and let me add, Boo. Bad Show, Old Boy.

This film centers on an implausible kidnapping, and a load of "filler material" at the beginning of the film, that features the protagonist protecting an African Princess whom he must protect but comes close to bedding on two occasions.The acting here and the badly choreographed karate fight scenes make "Dolemite" look like "Enter The Dragon." Truly hammy acting and bad editing make this film a must-see for burgeoning directors and editors so that they will know what NOT to do when creating an action film. As in a lot of second-rate blaxploitation, the innuendo and nudity is heavy. The dialog is so corny, you suspect that black people had little to do with it. Cookie cutter characters make this a really poor man's version of "Shaft," meaning this film is a bad (horrific) mutha....I know, hush my mouth!

The Guy From Harlem has systematically landed the genre of the African-American Detective as a violent confederation of bruising action, lethal dialogue, and a soundtrack that sends the ladies into a frenzy of ecstasy.After graduating with honors from the school of hard knocks, Al (the guy...from Harlem) sets out to educate the underworld with the Truth! His vigilante justice is borderline pornographic, and his swagger is a language of catastrophic eroticism.He always knows what time it is...Al Connors can go from slow dancing under the pale moonlight, to dodging bullets from transvestite assassins posing as hotel employees. He will not be misled, misinformed, or misunderstood. His only real agenda is to seek truth and justice for the oppressed. And to get his groove on, whenever possible.after all, what else is there in life?