Black Mama White Mama
Directed by Eddie Romero
Starring Pam Grier and Margaret Markov
86 minutes
Black Mama, White Mama is such a terrible movie, I found myself daydreaming around the middle so I really don’t know some specific details about the movie. I’m not going to bother wasting any more of my life by viewing specific scenes again... sorry.
Basically, the movie is about a black woman and a white woman. They both enter prison together. The black woman, Lee Daniels (Pam Grier), is a prostitute and the white woman, Karen (Margaret Markov), is in for political crimes as she’s a revolutionary. These two manage to escape but there’s one catch... their wrists are chained together with shackles. For the next hour they run through the jungle, fight each other and various people. We find out that Lee Daniels is after some loot. There’s an oily politician, a cop, Filipino gangsters and more gangsters. Some people are after the black woman and some people are after the white woman.
I actually bought this movie about eleven years ago and it had been sitting on the shelf for eleven years. I guess there was a reason for that. Does anyone want to buy this from me? I’ll sell it to you for a reasonable price...
I must’ve bought this movie expecting to see something in the vein of Coffy or Foxy Brown. As far the film making goes the script’s structure seems to be all over the place (perhaps, this is why I found myself falling asleep in the movie).
The two main actresses really don’t have that much chemistry. They have a few “cat” fights in the film but they never really seem to “hate” each other enough to actually make it entertaining.
Pam Grier says a lot of funny stuff. “I’ll kill that bitch,” or “Listen bitch, you can stick that up you ass,” or “I spent the last two years with a prick I hated,” are some things that says.
The scenes in the prison are exploitative. There’s the mandatory lesbian prison guard. There’s the mandatory female shower scene. And then there’s the “oven” that woman have to go into if they do something really bad...
The prison part goes on for about twenty minutes... after that, we have to watch the great escape and revolutionary cause, which lead to lots of cheap gun fight scenes. By the end, I really had no idea what this revolution was about and, frankly speaking, I didn’t really care.
The soundtrack in this movie is pretty unmemorable... I can’t think of one melody that stuck in my head from this movie.
If you’re going to watch this movie because you’re thinking it’s going to be a cool blaxploitation flick, do yourself a favor and avoid watching this at all cost. Watch the other ones (Coffy, Foxy Brown, Truck Turner, Slaughter).
This movie really is so bad I’m not even going to bother rating it.
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