dworldeater Dolemite is one of my all time favorites and was one of the first blaxsploitation movies that I have seen. While the movie is super low budget and has a ton of flaws, Dolemite is one of the coolest films out there and I always have a great time watching this classic. Yes, the production value is terrible and the acting is really bad and Rudy Ray Moore could not fight his way out of a bathroom. But, Rudy has a unique persona and presence that demands attention and respect. Our hero and main man Dolemite was set up by a rival and imprisoned. He gets out of prison and with his stable of karate chopping call girls, he is on his path to revenge and street justice. Hustler, pimp, club owner and all around bad ass, Dolemite kicks ass and scores with the ladies. Lots of great lines from The Godfather Of Rap and the film went on to inspire generations of fans, film makers and musicians to come. Rudy Ray Moore was one of the coolest cats to ever live and Dolemite is one of his finest work. After watching Dolemite, I rented all the blaxsploitation movies that I could get my hands on, some of them were also great, others, not so great. But, Dolemite holds up and is essential viewing for the genre and one of the coolest movies ever made.

Richard Dominguez OK So I Have Never Seen This Movie But I Read Up On It ... Dolemite Is The Worse Blaxpoitation Movie Ever Made And That's What Makes It So Good ... Every Stereotype Is Stepped On In This Movie And Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) Is The Worse Looking Pimp Ever ... The Action Scenes Are A Joke But They Are Pretty (In One Scene Dolemite Knocks Out A Cop With Two Punches And A Kick Even Though None Of Them Landed ... The Man Does Have The Soul Of A Poetic Judging By His Two Rhymes In The Movie ("Shine & The Great Titanic" and "The Signifying Monkey" See Comments For Both Rhymes) Both Very Funny But Their Message Was Not Lost On These Ears ... From What I Read Rudy Ray Moore Hand Picked People Off The Street To Fill In Roles In The Movie, Many Of Them Not Knowing Till The Last Possible Moment What Their Roles Would Be ... In All This Madness And Chaos Rudy Ray Managed To Make A Movie (And Apparently 3 Sequels) That Have So Far Stood The Test Of Time ... Cult Classics Or Guilty Pleasure My Recommendation Is That You Check It Out ... Believe It Or Not As Bad As This Movie Is I Think I Will Watch The Next One (Guilty Pleasure) ...

Melvin M. Carter The various Law & Order and CSI franchises had better be glad Dolomite doesn't pass through. The lady cops,ADAs,and coroners would all be enthralled and the males be subject to such soul shivering,badge melting warp speed kicks ( Wouldn't you just love to see David Caruso's Horatio and that know it all on CSI get Dolomite's Hush Puppies pulled from their respective asses)Ice T might start crying and get back on the Playa Trail.Low low budget,bad but enthusiastic acting,and a vision at what gutbucket nightclubs offered to its patrons;funk bands soul singers,the last vestiges of old style Chitlin Circuit entertainers( that weirdling dance troupe)James Brown,Wilson Pickett,Otis Redding,and a host of others came from those clubs to glory, while their peers labored on in local or regional stardom. Rudy Ray Moore came from that background and the character of Dolomite is a mix of the bold Black badasses who strutted through. He shouldn't have went to the joint, the swine didn't have a warrant, how his middle aged ,blubbery self maintained a loyal stable of kung fu wenches is a mystery only a student of cults can explain, but all that is beside the point. It's a glorious home movie of a legendary performer that compared to the mirrors of actors ranging from Established Hollywood to indie film snorefests,hits its mark. A fun dumb movie!

Doug Galecawitz Dolemite is awesome. Rudy Ray Moore's rhymin kung fu pimp with horrible choreographed action sequences is about as close as you can get to becoming a spoof of a genre without actually being spoof. Citizen Kane this may not be nor Les Infant Au Revoir, but this is undoubtedly genius in it's own right. The production values in this movie are so bad they could qualify as existential special effects. The plot drags a little in the middle but the power of such a cheap premise as kung fu hookers is enough to bring all but the snootiest film lovers through. The infamous ever present boom mike evokes shades of the gloriously incompetent Ed Wood and never grows unfunny. I sometimes wonder if the boom mike was left in on purpose as commentary on the ridiculous aspects of movies in general but i usually get distracted by erotic scenes that lack eroticism to the point of high art mundanacity. Everything is this movie is alive and breathing, dripping with desperate longing to be simultaneously loved and reviled. It works.9 out of 10