This early blaxploitation flick is definitely in that SWEET SWEETBACK'S BADASSSSS SONG wheelhouse where the films were more about serious social issues and not so much just action movies starring black folks. That's not too say there's not a lot of action in this one. The action consists mainly of radical black revolutionaries shooting cops and cops shooting up the ghetto. Starring the future Lando Calrissian(Billy Dee Williams) as a very angry black man and that bad D'Urville Martin this is an interesting and artfully-shot(including many flashbacks) film that doesn't seem all that too far removed from where the U.S. could potentially be headed in the future.
This was re-released in 1976 as BLAST with additional footage shot by Allan Arkush. That version seem a bit harder to find today.:
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