The Black Six

Actors:  Lem Barney, Gene Washington, Mercury Morris, Mean Joe Green, Willie Lanier, Carl Eller, Ben Davidson
Rating:  1 out of 10, this may be the absolutely worst movie ever made.  My friend gave it to me as gag gift because it is a film that has reached mythic proportions with a group of friends.  It is a film made with football stars from the early 1970s, the height of “blaxploitation” films, some of which were actually pretty good.  This most definitely was not – it is so poorly made as to defy explanation.  The “6” are a black motor cycle gang of Vietnam veterans wandering the countryside until they learn of the murder of one of their younger brothers.  They return to the hometown to battle a white motor cycle gang.  In the credits they actually list which NFL team each guy played for.  The acting is nonexistent and the action, which you think would at least be credible, is laughably bad.  I kept asking myself, who would mess with a gang of huge NFL players but they keep coming.  Apparently Gene Washington was the only one of the six able to put three sentences together because he has virtually all the lines.  The climatic battle is not, although it does have a drugged out Ben Davidson, as Thor, leading the white motor cycle gang.  This was an hour and half I will never get back but again, the unintentional comedy factor is off the chart.
MVP:  Washington as Bubba Daniels (I’m not kidding) who is really the only one who talks, doesn’t act, just talks