Titreenp
SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
CommentsXp
Best movie ever!
Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Leofwine_draca
THE GUY FROM HARLEM is an extremely low rent blaxploitation film of the late 1970s which is so cheap that the whole thing has been filmed in just a couple of locations. The story is about a black private investigator, who desperately wants to be Shaft, who is tasked with bodyguarding an African princess for 24 hours. He contends with various goons along the way, and after that storyline is finished, he randomly goes off to rescue a kidnapped girl. The whole thing is stately and slow, with poor production values and an entire lack of incident to make it the least bit interesting. They throw in a lot of skin to try to keep the attention of their viewers, but it's a waste of a film overall.
Wizard-8
When "The Guy from Harlem" was made, the blaxploitation genre was all but dead, and its subsequent release put one of the final nails in the genre's coffin. Though it's not the worst offering of the genre (that would have to be "Blackenstein"), it is all the same a really terrible movie. It goes wrong in every way you can think of. The script is bad, ranging from awkward exposition to the story suddenly changing to another direction midway through. The acting is really amateurish, from sleepwalking performances to people shouting out their lines. If you are looking for action, forget it - there's only one (brief) action sequence in the first half of the movie, and while there's more in the second half, all the action is unexciting and badly done. If you are looking for sex and nudity, the movie also disappoints - there's very little of this material. The direction is third rate, from the director resorting to the same camera angles over and over to the lifeless feeling found in every scene. In fact, that's the biggest problem of the movie - it's really slow moving and boring. 90% of the movie consists of the characters having boring conversations. Oh, the amateurish nature of the movie does occasionally induce a chuckle, but otherwise the movie almost made me fall asleep - and I watched it in the morning!
davepitts
Is this the worst film ever? No, because it's funny!! It is as out there as Mad TV's "Dolemite," the blaxpoitation spoof. It actually helps that Mill Creek's print has scratches, blotches, and frame jumps. "Guy" is the epic saga of private eye Al Connors, who guards African first ladies and fights Big Daddy. You get... CLASSIC 70s DECOR AND POLYESTER: dark rust shag carpets, the world's ugliest motel painting, molded blue plastic receptionists' desks, men in the kind of print suits that 5-year-old boys wear to weddings, and lovely rotary dial phones that inflate the run time. FLUFFED DIALOG (although there may have been no script; the scenes play like the amateur cast was told to hit the plot points in their own words.) There are strange pauses, especially in Steve Gallon's scenes, where the actors search for their next topic. DOWN HOME ACCENTS: Mrs. Ashanti: Tell me, where are you from? Al: Harlem. Mrs. Ashanti: Oh, wow, I spent six month in Harlem. OR...Secretary: Can I have your name and the nature of your business? Harry De Bauld: Sweetie, I got an answer for bofe of those questions. You got 2 questions, I got one answer: NONE O' YO' DAMN BIDNESS!! ACTION SCENES... staged the way 3rd graders play commando. Yes, it's mostly dialog scenes in blowsy color. But watch it for Wanda DeBauld and her kidnapper yelling "Eat s___!" back and forth. Watch Al's secretary, earth's slowest typist. Watch Harry (Steve Gallon) bellow his lines three times louder than the other actors. Dig the wah-wah guitar behind all the fight scenes. Make a guess at production costs: $2000, including the motel rooms?? Bad Movie Heaven.
Scott_Mercer
WARNING: The following review contains abuse of exclamation points.Groooooch! THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE. Let me repeat this to make sure you get it. THE. WORST. MOVIE. EVER. MADE.Wait. I don't think I got it quite right yet.THE!! WORST!! MOVIE!! EVER!! MADE!!Worse than anything made by Ed Wood (including his "adult" movies)! Worse than anything by Bill Rebane, or Coleman Francis, or Richard Cunha, or Jerry Warren! Worse than MANOS! Worse than THE CREEPING TERROR! Worse than MONSTER-A-GO-GO (okay, maybe not)! Worse than BATTLEFIELD EARTH! Worse than FREDDY GOT FINGERED! Worse than PACIFIC HEIGHTS! Worse than Eddie Murphy's BOOMERANG! Worse than BABY GENIUSES 2! Wow! Stunning! Bad film-making at its worst! An all time low! Almost impossible for it to fail more than it did! Hilarious!Teeth-grindingly awful! Everything about this movie is substandard! The lowest possible budget! Must have been written by a 12-year-old! Worse than amateurish acting! Everyone in this movie is a terrible actor! Leaden pacing! Abysmal shot composition! Poor staging! Terrible sound! (You can hear the camera rolling throughout the movie...) The worst stunts I've ever seen! Most fake fight scene ever filmed! Awful dialog! The least amount of romantic chemistry ever seen between a male and female lead! Lousy music! (Actually the music is the least horrible thing about this movie, but it's still pretty bad.) Ridiculously unlikely plot! Stilted exposition! A woman supposedly from Africa with an American accent! I still have not used enough exclamation points to convince you just HOW BAD this movie truly is!!!! All budding MST3K trainees, attention: this is boot camp for the cynical movie critic. You will be LITERALLY BLOWN AWAY (hyperbole there: you will only be METAPHORICALLY blown away, not literally) by how truly awful, laughably bad and bargain basement this movie really is. Your jaw will hit the floor, your hair will curl, and your eyes will not believe what they are seeing.If you read this comment and all the others regarding this movie, and still take a chance, don't come running back to any of us. You will either be rolling on the floor laughing the uncontrollable laughter of the truly insane or clawing your eyes out if you stick with this bloated cinematic pustule till the end.YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
