Joe Bullet

1973

Action

6
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 5.1/10 10 135 135

blaxploitation martial arts assassin kidnapping gangster south africa

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Plot summary

When local soccer team The Eagles fall prey to a series of onslaughts from a mysterious gangster only a week before the championship final, the team turns to the one man that can help save their chances at victory – Joe Bullet (Ken Gampu). Joe will have to battle against villainous henchmen, escape booby-trap bombs and bring his martial arts expertise to the fore in order to survive an attack from a deadly assassin. In the end he will have to infiltrate the mysterious gangster’s hide-out in a dangerous cat-and-mouse rescue mission to save not only The Eagles’ two kidnapped star players, but that of his beautiful love interest, Beauty (Abigail Kubeka). The odds will be stacked against him, but he’s the man that fights crime, the man that no one can tie down! Joe Bullet!

Director

Louis de Witt Photo
Louis de Witt

Top cast

Fanyana H. Sidumo Photo
Fanyana H. Sidumo as Henry
Ken Gampu Photo
Ken Gampu as Joe Bullet
Sol Rachilo Photo
Sol Rachilo as Sonny
Sydney Chama Photo
Sydney Chama as Jerry
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628.46 MB
956*720
English 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 19 min
Seeds 1
1.33 GB
1424*1072
English 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 19 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Paul de Bruin

**Joe Bullet** was banned shortly after it’s initial

**Joe Bullet** was banned shortly after it’s initial release by the Apartheid Government and is now being digitally remastered by the Gravel Road African Film Legacy Initiative. This is also not so much a review but a little extra information courtesy of Benjamin Crowley, CEO of Gravel Road Entertainment Group... **Logline** > When a mysterious gangster starts sabotaging soccer team The Eagles’ chance at winning the upcoming championship final, there is only one man who can save the day…Joe Bullet! **History** > Produced in 1971, JOE BULLET was one of the first South African films featuring an all-African cast, and starred Ken Gampu, of the first black South African actors to appear in Hollywood films. > JOE BULLET was independently released in 1972 in the Eyethu cinema in Soweto, and after only two screenings, the film was banned by the then Apartheid government. The film was later unbanned after special appeal and a personal screening to the Minister of Communications. The film was, however, never released again and simply disappeared. > Now, after more than 40 years, the film has been digitally restored and finally available for world-wide release.
Reviewed by Mozjoukine

Naive but intriguing pioneer all black action movie.

I can't find much information on this historically intriguing South African black wannabe addition to the "Shaft-Superfly- Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song", tradition, or it's 1982 sequel. That's a pity because what went on behind the scenes is probably much more interesting than what we see. We do learn that the film was banned and unbanned in 1972 (why?) and has only just re-appeared and recognize the imposing Ken Gampu from his Jamie Uys movies "Dinkaka" and "The Gods Must be Crazy" and from "The Naked Prey" all those years back. He's a plausible action hero who could have carried a more substantial production. The film's ambitions are minimal. The formula plot about corruption in sport has the bad hats trying to get star players Tlhotlhalemaje and Chama away from the Eagles so that the the rival Team the Falcons take the big game and the crooks get rich betting on them.Ken comes with his own song ("he's the man who won't let you down") and wins the manager's daughter Kubeka, who does a passable musical interlude when our hero is not rescuing her from various perils. Versatile director-cameraman de Witt is most at ease covering the film's soccer matches. The production arrives in brownish newly restored four by three, with English sub-titles rendering the poorly re-voiced English dialog.
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