TNT Jackson

1975 "She'll put you in traction."
4.7| 1h12m| R| en
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A woman encounters thugs and drug dealers after traveling to Hong Kong to search for her missing brother.

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Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
arfdawg-1 The Plot. Her name is Diana Jackson, but you can call her T.N.T. When T.N.T.'s brother is killed by ruthless drug dealers, the beautiful young karate expert goes to the most dangerous part of Chinatown to find the killer. In trouble with the law since she was 13, T.N.T. wants no help from the pigs; but she does befriend a guy named Joe, whose impressive martial arts skills prove useful more than once. In her quest for the killer, she'll meet the white drug lord, Sid; Elaine, his bitchy girlfriend; his suspicious Chinese assistant, Ming; and Charlie, his handsome black assistant with criminal ambitions of his own. Before her search is over, she'll find herself making love to Charlie, trading insults with Elaine, and fighting criminals while nude and in the dark. Just call her T.N.T.This amounts to one of the worst exploration films ever made. And it's not "good" bad. It's just bad.The story-line is random and impossible to follow. The actions scenes are horrible and unreal.There is no direction to speak of and the locales are crumbling.Oh, and it goes without saying that the acting is horrendous.
Bezenby TNT Jackson's brother has been knocked off in Hong Kong and TNT heads there undercover to kick ass and find her brother's killer. It all kicks off in this action packed, and afro packed film from Cirio H Santiago. Also, that's the plot.TNT sure gets into some scrapes here. Almost immediately she's set upon by goons trying to steal her bag (one guy gets a gory arm snapping for his troubles) and then she shacks up at a bar run by Joe while being hit upon by a dude called Charlie, who has an amazing afro and is quite the Russell Brand type when it comes to the ladies. Trouble is, he also killed TNT's brother, but she doesn't find that out until after he's gotten into her pants like the fanny rat he is.Loads of kung fu fighting (including a topless kung fu fight!), double crosses, and even a bit of gore (turns out that the 'thrusting your hand into an enemies midriff' might be a legitimate kung fu move – I've seen it a few times now) make this film very enjoyable. It's about 70 minutes long too. If Tarantino paid homage to it, it'd be three hours long (and don't doubt that he hasn't watched this one).
Leofwine_draca A very feeble cross between a kung fu film and a blaxploitation movie, aimed squarely in the middle of both markets and yet failing as a vehicle for each genre. This is a Filipino-shot movie with the Philippines standing in for Hong Kong, directed by old hand Cirio H. Santiago. Believe it or not, I'm a fan of Santiago's movies – call me a masochist if you will – but even I'll be the first to admit this is one of his worst efforts.The problem is that the film is boring, despite best efforts otherwise. The plot is slim and of the standard revenge format, but most of the production values are terrible. The fight choreography is very poor and there never appears to be any genuine skill on the part of most of the performers. In particular, Jeannie Bell is terrible, completely failing to cut it as both a fighter and a leading actress; it's painfully obvious that her career background is as a model. Best of the actors is Stan Shaw, later a Hollywood mainstay, who's a pleasure to watch whenever he's on screen.Unfortunately, TNT JACKSON has to be considered a failure at the end of it all purely because it's so badly made. Sure, there are a handful of decent scenes in here, and one or two scenes that are memorable for all the wrong reasons, but it's not enough to make this come close to resembling a decent movie in any way, shape or form.
Space_Mafune A young woman nicknamed "T.N.T." for being virtual dynamite in a fight and a knockout in terms of looks to boot, goes to the most lawless part of Hong Kong in search of her missing brother Stag Jackson. When she learns he has been murdered, she decides she will bring the killer to justice in a fashion only she can.Sounds good, doesn't it. Well, there's really nothing wrong with the basic premise as a starting base for a martial arts/blaxploitation action thriller, which is what this aims to be. The leads actually prove pretty good too with Jeanne Bell fitting nicely into the role of "T.N.T." and Stan Shaw doing well as the ambitious, power-hungry Charlie. Where this fails miserably is in terms of the fighting action it offers up. The fight scenes are totally and completely unconvincing and/or sometimes so completely over the top it reaches the point of ridiculousness which doesn't at all help when the basic focus of your movie is a Kung Fu action heroine. Also the poor lighting, actors sporting accents making them hard to understand, the confusing camera-work and the sometimes poor sound doesn't help this obvious low budget effort out either any. This does deliver in one area which may delight some fans, it does offer up plenty of the T in "T & A", in fact practically every fight scene in the film is proceeded by some type of nude scene and Jeanne Bell actually does have one extended fight scene in which she is completely topless.In the end, this fails to be something you want to revisit because the fight scenes are so pathetically, laughingly bad.