I got shafted again! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.) In the past two weeks, I got burned by two remakes of bad 1970's films. Why, you might ask, did I go? I went to see some of my favorite actors. Last week, it was Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Robert Duvall and Giovanni Ribisi in "Gone in 60 Seconds," and today it was Christian Bale, Toni Collette, and Vanessa Williams in "Shaft." Just think of what the combined talents of these people could have done in a GOOD film. The minimal plot in this mindless shoot-out of a film concerns the Armani-clad Shaft(Samuel L. Jackson, sleep-walking through this role) as the nephew of the original Shaft(played once again, by Richard Roundtree) hunting down the rich-kid killer, who happens to be a racist! Duh! The one good thing about this movie, is that once-promising director John Singleton("Boys N the Hood")is not afraid to be politically incorrect. If this could only produce a trend, where filmmakers, instead of kissing up to the leaders of annoying minority groups(e.g., the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jerry Falwell, the Gonsalez family,etc.), could create films of consequence showing the way things REALLY are in America. What a dream! Anyway, to get back to the film. If you like seeing good guys and bad guys shooting at each other for 1 1/2 hours, then you'll love this film. By the way, do guns shoot better if they're held in the horizontal position???