
Super Fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will soon end with either prison or his death. He decides to build an escape from the life by making his biggest deal yet, converting the coke to cash and running off to start a new life. The problem is that the Mob does not have a retirement plan and will give him a choice of staying and selling for them or dying if they find out his intentions.... (Full plot summary below)
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Super Fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will soon end with either prison or his death. He decides to build an escape from the life by making his biggest deal yet, converting the coke to cash and running off to start a new life. The problem is that the Mob does not have a retirement plan and will give him a choice of staying and selling for them or dying if they find out his intentions.
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| LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen...about the dead-end despair of ghetto life, where the false independence of a criminal enterprise is really just another form of enslavement. |
| Common Sense MediaBrian CostelloClassic '70s drama with drugs, violence, cursing. |
| Alternate EndingTim BraytonIt has a subdued psychological acuity that goes far beyond the grubby baseline of the normal exploitation film. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrRoundly condemned as a glorification of drug dealing, it's actually an acrid film noir on a classic theme—the hood who must make one last score before he quits the business. |
| The New York TimesRoger GreenspunThe film's gut pleasures are real, and there are a lot of them. But, they always connect with one another in a world so precisely, cruelly, excitingly balanced that there is no movement without countermovement, no pressure without a greater pressure in return. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinSuperfly is in many ways classic pulp, but O'Neal and Mayfield push it toward a sort of epic grandeur. |
| CinapseEd TravisAmong the early and most sacred films in the Blacksploitation cannon, 1972's Super Fly is a towering pillar in many circles. |
| Time OutGeoff AndrewOne of the most successful of the early '70s blaxploitation cycle. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullDrug dealer, big score, wants to get out of the biz. Yawn. |
| EmpireSteve O'haganWith some of the best costumes since the musicals of the '50s and one of the '70s funkiest scores, it's quite rudimentary on most levels - it's no Shaft. |