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To me, this movie is perfection.

Memorable, crazy movie

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Movies from the 1970's were different and much not to the norm and true they had plenty of action and the skin scenes and nudity combined with violence made most of them a real eye candy treat to watch. This low budget 1974 film "TNT Jackson" fits all of those themes. It featured "Playboy" playmate Jeanne Bell as TNT Jackson in this blaxploitation take which has her to travel from Harlem to Hong Kong to look for her missing brother who has gotten himself in trouble with the mob and this world involves the mob and plenty of violence. Miss Jackson poses and goes undercover as a prostitute in order to find out some information along the way this film is a fun eye candy treat of sex, nudity and action which includes topless karate. Good watch to pass a little time a nice fun independent film that gets right into it and doesn't take itself to serious.

I'll be reviewing another public domain title called TNT Jackson. A blacksploitation film in 1974 starting a playboy bunny, Jeanne Bell, as TNT Jackson. The movie starts in Hong Kong where her brother gets killed. She then goes to Hong Kong to find out who killed him. Also finds a drug operation going on too. The fight scenes are okay and Jeanne Bell seems to do a decent job. I'm not quite sure since the audio is pretty bad. It's in mono so it's whispering bad at times I can only hear them when it's quiet. There's also a scene where TNT fights topless and keeps turning off a light. Also at the end they go to some place in Africa I'm not quite sure where exactly. Anyway this is a low budget blacksploitation movie so if your into mindless entertainment, enjoy. I watched it for the exotic location of Hong Kong and maybe just for fun.

I have to admit that I was kind of looking forward to watching TNT JACKSON after I read the description of the movie in the Leonard Maltin movie guide. But to my surprise, I found out that Maltin lied. Jeannie Bell does *not* get her shirt ripped off before the start of every fight she's involved in - it only happens once, and it's a very brief and poorly directed sequence. But what about the rest of the movie? Unfortunately, it's not that much better. Bell gives a performance that suggests she's very unhappy to be stuck in this movie, and it's clear that she's no martial artist due to her feeble moves as well as the fact that it's clear several times that the filmmakers are using a stand in for her. But it's not just the fight sequences that are tacky. The whole movie has a really cheap look and feel, not a surprise because Cirio Santiago helmed the enterprise, and he was an exploitation movie director who didn't make that many good movies in his career. The best I can say about the movie is that it's pretty short.

This extremely bargain-basement Blaxploitation/Kung-Fu hybrid was in my country released by a questionable DVD label that usually speaking just occupies with the transfer of pure crap onto disc, so that wasn't exactly a favorable herald. Several other titles were released in the same series, like "The Black Six", "The Black Gestapo" and "The Black Godfather" and judging by all their low ratings and negative reviews none of these belong to the elite of the 70's Blaxploitation hype, neither. "TNT Jackson" is a pretty lousy film, completely lacking a significant plot but featuring far too many laughable fighting scenes and horrible acting to compensate. Apparently Roger Corman – never too embarrassed to make some easy money – assigned two of his most loyal acolytes to rapidly invent a simplistic story that would appeal to fans of both oriental Kung-Fu movies and contemporary trendy Blaxploitation flicks. The result Cirio H. Santiago and Dick Miller came up with was "TNT Jackson"; the tale of an arse-whooping black babe traveling to Hong Kong in search of her missing brother. She quickly discovers he was killed by a criminal network of drug-smugglers and swears to avenge him. Mrs. Jackson smoothly infiltrates into the underground and encounters macho pimps, helpful undercover agents, loads of vicious Kung-Fu fighters. Only one thing's for sure; they all want a piece of TNT's ravishing body in one way or another. I sincerely doubt movie concepts get any more elementary than this, but – unfortunately - all the other aspects suck too. The battle scenes are overlong and moreover pathetically staged. Jeannie Bell and the other poor suckers try really hard to stare menacingly and assume a tough position, but eventually all they ever do is kick in the air and stupidly leap across rooms. The cinematography is horrid, the soundtrack is vastly disappointing (whatever happened to soul music?), the few dialogs are poorly written and the acting performances are inferior. Speaking of which, Jeannie Bell is undeniably a beautiful woman, but still she can't hold a candle to Tamara Dobson or Pam Grier. There's only one really good and memorable scene in "TNT Jackson", namely the famous hotel room battle where Bell, entirely naked except for panties, repeatedly switches the light on and off whilst kicking the hell out of some goons. Amusing scene ... I just haven't figured out yet whether it's thanks to the light switch ingenuity or Bell's perfectly shaped breasts.