Don't be expecting anything beyond a well-done, and rather straight-forward blaxploitation which ticks all the boxes of its genre, but going about its business in a methodical manner. Well, the stinging violence, when it erupts, had a short-fuse and was always felt (Especially the scrappy Brown v Glover beat down). But a good amount of time is about the set-up, and therefore you get a good hour of bombastic music cues, hangout moments, or shakedown meetings. So it does take some time (and extra motivation) before the effortlessly cool Jim Brown goes to work. The relax facade becomes raging aggression, especially one scene which incorporated ten pin bowling and a drug dealing snitch. But the real big dogs are Martin Landau's calculative mafia boss and Bruce Glover's eccentric right hand man. Very good, and memorable performances. Likewise Brenda Sykes, even though her role was small.

Nothing like a good ole blaxploitation flick to pass some free time in the weekend. The movie had a bug flaw but I won't pick on it.

The Character listed in the credits as "Ray Kelley" played by Bruce Glover is incorrect. The name of the character in the movie "Black Gunn" is "Ray Kriley". I hated that man and his name will forever be etched into my mind as far as remembrance of this great movie. Kudos to Mr. Jim Brown. This movie was one of a handful of movies that would normally go unnoticed by most, but Jim Brown was involved in projects that were not only "Blaxploitation" films, but sound and solid acting performances such as the legendary "Tick...Tick...Tick". While his acting could never rival his athletic accomplishments, Jim Brown made his mark on those who wanted to see action films. He helped to break down the myth that Black Actors and projects were not viable for the movie industry and he was a part in paving the way for Black Actors of today. Thank you, Mr. Brown.

In East L.A., Vietnam vet Scott Gunn leads a militant African-American Black Action Group team on a heist at an Italian mob's bookmaking operation. In addition to money, the group steals some of the illegal records. Scott seeks help from his nightclub owner brother Gunn (Jim Brown). Mobster Russ Capelli (Martin Landau) uses any violent means to retrieve their lost books. It's a blaxploitation film. It has greasy white villains. It's black power. There is a bit of action but the movie is slow. It strives to be a serious crime drama. After just recently watched the Dolemite biopic, this is the exact opposite of blaxploitation. It's the thing that the hated producers point to as something that Dolemite could never be. Jim Brown is the black superhero. One can't ignore that he's rather stiff as an actor. His size gives him screen presence and natural charisma but he is limited. It's not as cool as Shaft and it's not funny like Dolemite.

I'm not sure why the Mill Creek Entertainment company thought that this movie was deserving of a Blu-ray release. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy some elements of it. Since it's a blaxploitation movie from the 1970s, it has many of the fun trademarks of the genre, such as the clothing, hair styles, attitude, slimy bad guys, nudity, and so on. Also, the movie does boast some good action sequences here and there (love those splattery blood wounds!) Unfortunately, there are less action sequences than most viewers will be expecting and demanding. The movie instead is strung along with many long (and slow) sequences of talking, which often doesn't advance the plot that much. In fact, it takes almost half the movie before the character of Gunn is enraged and decides to take revenge. And even when the character of Gunn is engaged on the path of revenge, the performance by Jim Brown more often than not makes the character seem disinterested and bored. The movie also ends on a note with several plot threads clearly not given a proper conclusion. There are definitely worse blaxploitation movies than "Black Gunn", but there are definitely some that are much better. I'd only recommend it to fans of the genre who have already seen the better efforts and are really craving for more, and who are willing to put up with the aforementioned defects the movie has.

This one has Jim Brown go on a shooting spree when his kid brother gets involved with Black militants and disappeared. It's a decent shoot-em-up with Martin Landau in a featured role, because there's always a white actor who's well known for that thing he did, so everyone knows who he is but not why. The whole thing has a tired air of some one saw a movie and thought that what it needed was more shooting. In this case, it looks like Dashiell Hammet was somewhere in the junk DNA sequences, with almost inaudible echoes of The Maltese Falcon (wth the brutal, futile yet honest cops) and Red Dust, rendering this a decent time-waster.

When a black militant group led by "Scott Gunn" (Herbert Jefferson Jr.) break into a gambling operation and steals cash and some important ledgers from a West Coast syndicate it ignites the possibly of severe racial unrest which then becomes a top concern for the local law enforcement. Since these ledgers are extremely important the mafia orders one of their newly promoted executives by the name of "Capelli" (Martin Landau) to track down whoever stole them and retrieve them by any means necessary. Although Scott downplays the situation his older brother, who operates a nightclub and simply goes by the name of "Gunn" (Jim Brown), realizes the danger and advises Scott to hide out until he can come up with a plan. Unfortunately, the mafia finds out where Scott is hiding and and kills him. And Gunn wants revenge. Anyway, for a "black exploitation" this one wasn't too bad. Jim Brown put on a decent enough performance as did Bruce Glover (as "Ray Kriley") and the aforementioned Martin Landau. I also liked the presence of both Brenda Sykes ("Judith") and Luciana Paluzzi ("Toni Lombardo"). All things considered, I thought this was one of the better films of this genre and I rate it as above average.

Just watched this Jim Brown action movie on the Crackle site. He plays Gunn, a nightclub owner who vows vengeance after his brother-because of his involvement in a robbery-gets killed. Unlike most blaxploitation movies, this one takes it's time in developing the story though it threatens to get monotonous when sequences get too talky. Of the supporting cast, the most interesting player to me was Jim Watkins playing the only black officer-in this case, Lt. Ken Hopper-who is firm but fair in his dealings with Gunn. My favorite scene was the one where a couple of white women staying at his girlfriend's house start putting the moves on him before that girlfriend shoos them away but not before Gunn's shirt came off! Ooh, yeah! So on that note, Black Gunn is highly recommended.

Jim Brown deadpans his way through Black Action Film heaven. All the touchstones are here: The Mafia, a Black Panthers rip-off, drugs, trashy whores, nasty pimps, jittery dealers and even sweatier addicts, fist fights, gun play, drug dealers, revenge killings, psycho hit men, racial slurs, car chases, stolen cars, and explosions. Even more than that, plenty of early Seventies atmosphere here to enjoy: giant sedans, huge lapels, enormous hair, used car dealers, bowling, black revolutionaries, sexy stewardesses, and lots of fuzz guitar, tremolo and wah-wah pedals on all the music. Jim Brown is a schmoove nightclub owner (this is an adult nightclub, kids, where the immaculately coiffed adults eat steak, drink whiskey and slow-dance to overproduced soul easy listening music) who's cooler than a cucumber popsicle. His uncool little brother is in with BAG, the Black Action Group, who get deep into it when they steal money and ledger books from THE MOB. The greasy mobsters aren't gonna put up with that, so they put out the word: find those lousy #$$%*#* and kill 'em. But little brother hid the ledgers at Gunn's nightclub/suave bachelor pad. So they kill the brother anyway, and that REALLY makes Gunn mad. It's all-out war now, and Gunn has to avoid both the Fuzz and BAG on his one-man war of vengeance. There are some slow spots here and there, but the action sequences make up for the few slack bits. Brown is not going to be doing heavy drama anytime soon, but he does what he does here extremely well. Highly recommended for fans of Black Action Cinema.

Bought it on 16mm. Seriously flawed character motivation and gratuitous violence... Holes in the plot large enough to drive a '71 Caddy through... All the elements necessary for a hilarious and bewildering movie experience. The soundtrack is great although it surfaces about as frequently as the Loch ness Monster, bubbling up at unexpected and inappropriate moments. And how the hell did Martin Landau get in here? Bruce Glover is a shining beacon of kitsch. Solid, baby.