What makes it different from others?

The greatest movie ever made..!

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) is let out of prison in order to find the bad guys who we already know who they are. Our middle aged pot bellied karate fighter, battles bad rhymes, a bad script, bad acting while having a microphone in the scene.The film series is part of a so bad it is good, but in the realm of things, I found this film to be less entertaining the others.Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity

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.

Thank you, DOLEMITE, for introducing me to an entirely new level of movies that are so bad, they're awesome. From the mind of comedian Rudy Ray Moore, DOLEMITE is a bit of blaxploitation gold. Throughout the entire film, I can't tell if Moore meant for this movie to be taken seriously or not. At times, it really looks as if it's trying for actual drama but it's all done so unbelievably poorly that I just can't figure it out. DOLEMITE is a movie produced by a team of people who had no real idea how to make a movie. Everything about this movie is amateur, from the script to the execution. Still, you can't help but be entertained for all the wrong reasons…or right reasons? Like I said, I can't figure out if it's glaring flaws were intentional or not. Dolemite (Moore) is a pimp and owner of the Total Experience club, and opens the movie in jail. He's been framed by some crooked detectives and the FBI, who'd planted drugs and stolen furs in the trunk of his car. The entire plot was hatched by Dolemite's rival, the diabolical Willie Green, who continues to corrupt the streets: selling dope to kids, providing gangs with guns, and even gunning down Dolemite's nephew. Dolemite's confidant and business partner, Queen Bee, has convinced the warden to give Dolemite his freedom on the condition that he investigates Willie Green and brings him down. This is a job for the bad, bad Dolemite.I don't even know where to begin. There is so much to love about the movie. The horrible dialogue, the constant boom microphones dipping into frame, the shoddy editing…it all adds up to hilarity. The writing is atrocious and the movie constantly grinds to a halt as characters spout exposition, but it's OK because the performances are so bad that it feels like a joke. It's like watching an elementary school play as characters step on each other's lines or stumble over their dialogue. I'm guessing director D'Urville Martin wasn't interested in multiple takes when filming; it's the only explanation I can fathom for the amount of mistakes in the movie. To give you a frame of reference, the DVD case for the movie went so far as to list martial arts champion Howard Jackson (that's his credit…Martial Arts Champion) but couldn't be bothered to give mention of the cinematographer. I hope that puts their priorities into perspective for you here. Scenes are often left in wide master shots (with occasional close-ups) and the framing is often weird. I also noticed an odd tendency to hold unnaturally long at the end of scenes to watch characters wander out of frame or climb into their cars and ride off. It's like a real bad student film. Now, this movie is an action film so you've got to take a moment to show some love for the fight choreography here. Again, the fights are generally left to a wide master shot so you can see just how uncoordinated these performances are. Punches never come close to connecting and people can't even fall to the floor convincingly. There are even a few instances of Dolemite being shot (obviously at point-blank range) and, thanks to poor editing, he's perfectly fine (with the exception of the final fight).I'm not sure if anyone in this movie has ever acted in a movie before, but it sure doesn't look like it. Rudy Ray Moore is the star here, bringing his Dolemite routine to the big screen. He's a smooth-talking pimp, often speaking in rhyme and even giving us a taste of his comedy routine in a random moment halfway through the movie. Moore was still finding his groove here and isn't nearly as insane as he'd become in his later movies. You can tell part of him is taking this role seriously and might even want to be seen as an action star. The film's director, D'Urville Martin, doubles as the villain Willie Green and, surprisingly, is the best performance in the movie. He's hilarious and, at points, even a little menacing. The rest of the performances range from the hilariously bad to the just plain terrible. Lady Reed is Queen Bee and she sounds as if she's reading the entire movie off cue cards. When she breaks the news to Dolemite that Willie Green murdered his nephew, she does so with all the emotion of your elderly grandmother reading a newspaper headline ("He wasn't bothering nobody…").And then there are the characters that appear for no real apparent reason. What was the point of Reverend Gibbs? His character serves absolutely no purpose in the film other than to point Dolemite to some dock site where he finds drugs packed into fish, but no connection to any of the villains. Just drugs in fish. Gibbs is given 3 or 4 scenes and his entire purpose is to point Dolemite to a meaningless clue. But if I'm going to talk about pointless characters, I've got to bring up the best: the hamburger pimp. A drug addict with a taste for burgers, this dude is freaking hilarious. If the filmmakers were handing out screen-time to random characters, the hamburger pimp should've gotten more. With his hoppin' music and his crazy shuffle, I could watch an entire movie where he stars as Dolemite's sidekick (even if you can't understand a word he mumbles). There is too much to say about DOLEMITE than can fit in a single comment here so all I can do is recommend that you give this movie a shot. It's a classic movie that opened the door for Rudy Ray Moore's increasingly bizarre movie career.And if you think this movie's strange, you need to watch it's sequel…THE HUMAN TORNADO!

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!