Shaft (3 out of 5 stars).

Shaft returns with Samuel L. Jackson with a cliché repetitive plot and clichés but delivers with Jackson's performance and Jessie T. Usher playing his son. It does have some fun humor and action. Otherwise, you will be looking at a complete dud of a movie.

The plot follows Shaft (Samuel L. Jackson) after separating with his girlfriend and their son JJ cause he will always be living a dangerous life. In the present day, JJ is a cyber-security expert for the FBI. When his friend who is a veteran is accidently overdosed in heroin. And they know he was clean. JJ will need the help from his father Shaft in investigating his friend's death.

The plot is cliché and dumb. Also predictable. JJ's friend is acting suspicious in the beginning of the movie like foreshadowing some kind of trouble is about to happen. When he is gone, JJ tries to investigate who was behind his murder. They come across some bad guys and even Shaft's past that he was always trying to run from comes back to him.

The film is pretty funny. JJ and Shaft teaming up is hilarious. Shaft is a loud mouth and a brute. JJ is anti gun, metro sexual, and has a modern cyber techy personality. They collide with their personality. While trying to learn from one and the other.

There is also a lot of mindless shoot up action scenes which is dumb and fun.

Overall, Shaft is a fair film. Samuel L. Jackson and Jesse T. Usher are great with their characters. The humor and action is fun. The plot is dumb and cliché. Making the movie forgettable.