Shaft

 One of those things that happen while on holidays, is that you see movies you probably never see otherwise.

And so we saw Shaft on the cable while in Bredene.

This 2000 movie starring Samuel L. Jackson is of course a remake of the old 70s movie and was actually quite enjoyable.  In a bungalow.  At the seaside.  With no access to your regular poison.

When called in to investigate a brutal assault outside a restuarant, street-way style using officer John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr, a wealthy son of a real estate magnate.  While there was an eye witness, a waitress called Diane, she refuses to issue a statement.  The victim goes in seizure and dies, but as Wade mocks him, Shaft punches him.  This is enough to let him walk free, much to the frustration of Shaft.

When Wade comes back from abroad two years later, Shaft arrests him again.  In jail, he meets and strikes a deal with Dominican drug lord Peoples Hernandez, but yet again Wade goes free on bail.  Shaft turns in his badge and vows to bring justice in his own way.

He searches for Diane, while Wade does the same by hiring Peoples and his gang.  Even though Shaft manages to set up a couple of corrupt cops that work with Peoples, it's only after an intense firefight that he and Diane manage to get away from Peoples and his men.  Diane confesses she took a pay-off from Wade, but Shaft convinces her to stand witness at the trial after all.

Peoples attacks again, but is shot after a long chase by Shaft, but at the trial itself Trey's mother shoots and kills Wade and is arrested, having brought vengeance for her son her own way...

So yeah, this was a good police movie, with an excellent performance by Jackson, so okay to watch on a late summer evening with a bag of nuts and a cool beer.