A Masterpiece!

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The film opens with traditional Chinese ceremony being performed to "whack-a-da" music to an audience of black people. TNT (Jeanie Bell) is attempting to locate her missing brother and ends up finding out his killers were heroin dealers. The movie has the uppity black woman using era phrases like "dig it" and "tell is like it is." It is a part of town where you can't walk down the street without engaging in a karate fight.The best fighters are those that can make their fingers look the most crooked and broken. TNT has a body double thick in the waist do her back flips. The production includes a classic ripped open blouse scene and ridiculous in the dark fight that follows.Guide: No swearing. Brief sex. Nudity (Jeanie Bell, Pat Anderson + uncredited Asians) Part of a badly restored 50 DVD set)

Diana "TNT" Jackson (Bell) is a fish out of water - a tough, foxy lady from Harlem now on the mean streets of Hong Kong looking for the drug dealers who killed her brother. When she arrives in HK, she wants to go to the section so dangerous, her cabbie won't even take her there. It's a good thing she's a Martial Arts expert. During her quest, she ends up meeting the charming Charlie (Shaw), a cool brother with designs on TNT. Her rivals include Elaine (Anderson), who works for the criminal organization headed by Sid (Metcalfe) - the nefarious syndicate she's trying to bust up. With only her wits and her fists and alone in a strange land, will TNT's revenge be truly explosive? Find out today! TNT Jackson is the earliest Cirio film we've seen to date, and one of the first we had seen by him, period. We would certainly end up seeing many more in the future from this prolific director. The movie is a Blaxploitation classic, and even has some of the themes Cirio would use throughout his career, well into the 90's - namely, the show-stopping nude (or nearly so) fight scene. Hey, if it's not broken, don't fix it. He stumbled upon a winner with that idea, and used it again in such films as Silk 2 (1989) and Angelfist (1993). The movie is certainly entertaining enough, and at a brief 72 minutes, you really can't go wrong. It also features great, funky music by Tito Sotto and some great, pre-political correctness dialogue. For example, many characters refer to TNT Jackson as "that Black chick", and the most dangerous section of Hong Kong is called the "Yellow District". Add to that some amazing 70's hair and fashions, and you have a mild winner.Mild because there's not exactly a lot of substance here, and the fight scenes are sped up, slowed down, and tinkered with in a lot of ways...but it's all in good fun, and we realize Jeannie Bell isn't supposed to be Donnie Yen. The fights are more like the ones seen on the old Batman TV show. Maybe this is all the concoction of J.Lo, a person we were frankly surprised to see credited as Martial Arts instructor. (In case the deadpan humor of that isn't coming across, that's supposed to be a joke. But there is a guy named J. Lo in the credits, which was fun to see). While it's unfair to compare Bell to someone like Pam Grier, who pretty much remains the queen of the Blaxploitation era, Bell can certainly hold her own, appearing in Trouble Man (1972), Black Gunn (1972), and Three the Hard Way (1974), among others.When seeing this movie, make sure you see the DVD included as part of the Roger Corman Lethal Ladies collection, released in 2011. This version blows away any released before it. Throw away your old VHS or gas station DVD's. It's in widescreen, with crisp, clear colors. The movie has never looked better. If you're going to see, or re-see this pleasant-enough entry in the Blaxploitation canon, there has never been a better time than now.

"T.N.T. Jackson" is, admittedly, the kind of thing I wouldn't consider "good", but it does deliver a fair amount of exploitative fun, combining the blaxploitation and martial arts genres. Co-written by actor Ken Metcalf, who plays the white drug lord Sid, and actor Dick Miller - yeah, *that* Dick Miller! - it stars pretty, voluptuous former Playboy Playmate Jeannie Bell as Diana "T.N.T." Jackson, a karate expert who travels to Hong Kong (the movie was actually shot, like many of its kind, in the Philippines) in search of her brother, who was murdered by American hoodlum Charlie (Stan Shaw), who's determined to gain control of the entire local drug trade. T.N.T. teams with local martial arts instructor Joe to take on the bad guys. As produced and directed by the ubiquitous Cirio H. Santiago, the movie is breezy fun, that at the very least is fairly well paced, getting down to business quickly enough and including as many fights as it can. Bell, who displays *plenty* of attitude, comes off well enough in the fight scenes, and has some chemistry with Chiquito, who plays Joe. Incidentally, the write-up in the annual paperback guide to movies by Leonard Maltin and associates has it wrong in that Ms. Bell is *not* constantly getting her top yanked off. She only displays her breasts twice, but in one of these scenes she shows off her body in a highly amusing fight with multiple bad guys that she plays almost totally nude, which has to rank as the highlight of the movie for trash fans watching. The acting from the cast is engaging, with Shaw, who had a respectable subsequent career as a character actor, making for a fun villain, and sexy blonde Pat Anderson playing the lady in Sid's employ who turns out to be a federal agent, or as T.N.T. would put it, a "pig". The fight scenes indeed don't quite work and could have been better choreographed. Accompanied by a typically funky and energetic music score (by Tito Sotto), "T.N.T. Jackson" still makes for an acceptable diversion, if not on the level of blaxploitation icon Pam Grier's best vehicles. The ending is just too abrupt, although it features an unexpected, unlikely, and utterly hilarious act of brutality. Fans of this sort of thing may be reasonably entertained. Seven out of 10.

T.N.T. Jackson (1975) ** (out of 4) Cult classic blaxploitation film about a kung fu fighting sister (Jeannie Bell) from Harlem who travels to Hong Kong to locate her missing brother. Once there the black, white and Chinese mob wants her out but thankfully she knows how to kick ass. This was my first of the blaxploitation/kung fun genre, which led to several films during the 1970s. I'm not going to lie and say this is a good film or even a fair one but it was mildly entertaining due in large part to former Playmate Bell. Her acting isn't really that good but her breasts are quite nice and thankfully they get several minutes of screen time. The violence and action is pretty much non-stop so if you don't mind the childish nature of the film then you might find yourself with a smile. The best scene happens when a Chinese guy wants to exchange sex with T.N.T. and she says: If you want black you got black!. She then strips down and turns the lights off so no one can see her (a homage in Tarantino's Jackie Brown as well). Politically incorrect? Hey, it's blaxploitation. Co-written by Roger Corman favorite Dick Miller.