ScoobyMint Disappointment for a huge fan!

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** Explosive follow up to the shocking movie about the pre Civil War South "Mandingo" has the son of the Mandingo slave Mede the grown up and fully developed Drum played by the then top heavyweight champion contender Ken Norton get involved in a slave revolt against his white slave masters when they try to castrate as well as murder his good friend fellow slave Blasé,Yaphet Kooto. That's when Blaze was accused of acting improperly by the master or slave owner of the house Hammond Maxwell's, Warren Oates, sex crazed teenage daughter Miss. Sophie, Rainbeaux Smith.Drum who at first had his outs with Blaze has now become his best friend but is helpless to save him in that "The Master" Mr. Maxwell who subconsciously knew what a liar and uncontrollable sexual predator, toward his bucks or male slaves, his daughter Sophie was but just couldn't admit it to himself. And had to do the poor and innocent Blaze in to uphold his daughter Sophie's honor. It's later that Drum who was the man who served refreshments. among other things , at Maxwell's New Orleans cat or whorehouse saw what was coming-a major slave revolt-and tried to stop it but by then things just got completely out of hand.****SPOILERS*** Shocking and fiery climax to this really over the top in violence and raw sexuality, as well as the over the top use of the "N" word, film with Blaze against his friend Drum's advice leading a suicidal slave revolt against the slave dealers in New Orleans that lead to disaster for both sides;Slaves and slaves owners. With reinforcements coming to the slave owners and their families rescues the by now very confused Drum is given the chance by his master Mr. Maxwell to escape in the bayou's before the white posse can get to him and is seen at the end of the film running for his life.P.S Despite it's shock value in depicting the pre Civil War deep south "Drum" was at times very historically accurate in how blacks-or African/Americans as their now called- were abused and treated, like farm animals, by their white masters. Still the movie put slave dealer and all around whore master Maxwell in a fairly good light in realizing how bad his business as a slave dealer was. It was Drum who got Maxwell to realize that blacks were as human as he and his fellow white slave dealers were but kept those feelings under wraps until the very end when with his home burned down and most of his family members massacred, due to his brutal treatment to his slaves, but that by then it was too late.

jtpaladin How anyone can watch this awful trash and enjoy any aspect of it amazes me. The acting was bad, the sets were bad, the script was bad, the subject matter was ridiculous, and the plot was absurd.Other people here who posted their comments saying that the film was "camp" or "good fun" or "one of my favorite films", clearly are so numb to violence against women that they readily accept garbage like this and enjoy it. What is wrong with some of you people? Have you no shame to actually come out and say that you enjoyed this psychotic idiocy? Where is your sense of decency? I think the final scene where the slaves break into the house and rape all the sleeping women is utterly disgusting. How can anyone "enjoy" a film where a whole host of women are violently raped? People actually find this entertaining? My suggestion is that some people need to get therapy as to why they would enjoy a film that ends in innocent women getting beaten and raped. Go to a therapist and tell him or her that you enjoy films were women are beaten and raped then find out the root cause for your disorder. Get help soon before you start acting out what you see on the screen.Clearly, the film was deplorable. There is something for any decent person to dislike. If a script for this film were to be submitted today, this movie would never get made. Don't even bother to watch this junk because there is not one single redeeming aspect to it. I mean, absolutely nothing. Of course, if you enjoy seeing women violently beaten and raped, this may be the film for you. And if it is, go get professional help.

rockinghorse Nobody should take this review seriously because all I know of Drum is the cast and the plot.Any movie that had Ken Norton in the lead invites this sort of criticism.Supposedly this movie is the sequel to Mandingo. Didn't Ken Norton die at the end of Mandingo? Doesn't that kind of prohibit him from being in the sequel apart from flash backs and such?Okay.Warren Oates plays the part Perry Kind had in Mandingo. At least one reviewer insists that this is okay because the story takes place 15 years later.Well, if one character returns as his unrelated but identical twin, what the heck.I understand that this movie is by turns realistic, sick, funny, has too much nudity, has not enough nudity . . . Folks, back up. This movie has Ken Norton in the lead. Does anything else need to be said? Anyone who takes it seriously deserves what they get.

rosscinema This was the so-called sequel to "Mandingo" and its not really a sequel but another excuse for exploitation which can be fun to watch. Ken Norton is "Drum" and he can't act to save his life but his physique is so impressive and also the fact that he was a famous boxer that had beaten Muhammad Ali gives the viewer some curiosity to watch him. Warren Oates plays Hammond Maxwell and Perry King played him in the first film and its impossible for him to play it but thats only if you use logic. Oates does add some respectable acting to the film and he chews up the scenery with gusto. Oates says lines like, "My bucks got to have intercourse, the saps a risen'". Pam Grier is Regina and she's Oates bed wench. Grier has a topless scene but has very little else to do in this film. Her part is very underwritten. Yaphet Kotto is Blaise and he gives probably the best performance. I'm not sure if Kotto did this film for the money but if he didn't, he should have known better. He does his best to portray an angry slave who talks of freedom in his heart. "B" movie icon Rainbeaux Smith plays Oates daughter Sophie and she has the hots for the bucks and if they don't cooperate then she screams rape. Smith is enjoyably bratty in this role and its the type of role she spent most of her career playing. She always brought that something extra to a role. Film is shameless in its subject matter. It has gays, lesbianism, naked prostitutes, spankings, fights, slave upheaval, and of course all the actress's get undressed. "Drum" was produced by Dino De Laurentiis and its another cheesy production from him. What can you expect from a man who dared to remake "King Kong"? If you loved this on an exploitation level, I couldn't argue with you. Its hilariously bad.