Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

BA_Harrison Karate expert Diana 'T.N.T' Jackson (Jeanne Bell) travels to Hong Kong to try and find her missing brother. When friendly club owner Joe tells her that he thinks her brother is dead, having fallen foul of local drug-dealing gangsters, T.N.T goes in search of his killer, looking for revenge.Produced by Roger Corman, written by cult actor Dick Miller, and directed by prolific Filipino film-maker Cirio H. Santiago, TNT Jackson is a blaxploitation/martial arts hybrid that fails to do justice to either genre. The titular character of Diana 'T.N.T.' Jackson has clearly been modelled on tough blaxploitation babes Coffy and Cleopatra Jones (played respectively by Pam Grier and Tamara Dobson), but Jeanne Bell, an ex-Playboy centrefold, has very little appeal (besides her smashing tits, that is): she's a lousy actress and an even worse martial artist, her fight scenes being some of the least convincing I have ever seen committed to film. She's in good company though, 'cos everyone else in this film is utterly dreadful too.On paper, the film sounds like it could be a trashy hoot: there's a Chinese guy with butterfly knives who has his elbow broken by one of TNT's pathetic blows, Ms. Jackson takes on a roomful of tough guys while wearing only a pair of black knickers, our heroine is sprung from jail by a Chinese dancing dragon, Bell is replaced by an unconvincing double for the more physically demanding scenes, black gangster Charlie sports a huge afro and some shocking 70s attire (that beret is HUGE!), and in the final fight against her brother's killer, TNT delivers a death blow that goes straight through her opponent's stomach. Unfortunately, the weak fight scenes rapidly become tiresome, the script is absolutely dire and the dull direction makes the film extremely tough going despite its exploitative nature.

Michael_Elliott T.N.T. Jackson (1975) ** (out of 4) Cult classic blaxploitation film about a kung fu fighting sister (Jeannie Bell) from Harlem who travels to Hong Kong to locate her missing brother. Once there the black, white and Chinese mob wants her out but thankfully she knows how to kick ass. This was my first of the blaxploitation/kung fun genre, which led to several films during the 1970s. I'm not going to lie and say this is a good film or even a fair one but it was mildly entertaining due in large part to former Playmate Bell. Her acting isn't really that good but her breasts are quite nice and thankfully they get several minutes of screen time. The violence and action is pretty much non-stop so if you don't mind the childish nature of the film then you might find yourself with a smile. The best scene happens when a Chinese guy wants to exchange sex with T.N.T. and she says: If you want black you got black!. She then strips down and turns the lights off so no one can see her (a homage in Tarantino's Jackie Brown as well). Politically incorrect? Hey, it's blaxploitation. Co-written by Roger Corman favorite Dick Miller.

Woodyanders Feisty Dianna Jackson (a winningly spunky performance by gorgeous former "Playboy" Playmate Jeanne Bell) goes to Hong Kong to take out the evil heroin ring that murdered her brother. Dianna's assisted by friendly karate master Joe (amiable Chiquito), faces opposition from undercover narcotics agent Elaine (lovely, buxom blonde babe Pat Anderson), and romances cocky, ruthlessly ambitious Charlie (essayed with supremely arrogant aplomb by Stan Shaw) while plotting her revenge against nefarious drug kingpin Sid (an effectively slimy Ken Metcalfe). Director Cirio H. Santiago, working from a blithely trashy script co-written by none other than Dick Miller (!), crams the lively and eventful 72 minute running time with a plethora of gratuitous distaff nudity and loads of badly staged martial arts fight scenes (Bell is clearly doubled by a squat guy wearing a giant Afro wig!). The definite sleazy highlight occurs when a topless Bell singlehandedly beats up a bunch of thugs in her hotel room. Felipe Sacdalan's raw, grainy, scratched-up cinematography, the clumsy use of strenuous slow motion, the funky-groovin' score, the laughably inept fight choreography, and the surprisingly gruesome conclusion add immensely to the overall scuzzy fun of this deliciously cheesy grindhouse exploitation hoot.

Space_Mafune A young woman nicknamed "T.N.T." for being virtual dynamite in a fight and a knockout in terms of looks to boot, goes to the most lawless part of Hong Kong in search of her missing brother Stag Jackson. When she learns he has been murdered, she decides she will bring the killer to justice in a fashion only she can.Sounds good, doesn't it. Well, there's really nothing wrong with the basic premise as a starting base for a martial arts/blaxploitation action thriller, which is what this aims to be. The leads actually prove pretty good too with Jeanne Bell fitting nicely into the role of "T.N.T." and Stan Shaw doing well as the ambitious, power-hungry Charlie. Where this fails miserably is in terms of the fighting action it offers up. The fight scenes are totally and completely unconvincing and/or sometimes so completely over the top it reaches the point of ridiculousness which doesn't at all help when the basic focus of your movie is a Kung Fu action heroine. Also the poor lighting, actors sporting accents making them hard to understand, the confusing camera-work and the sometimes poor sound doesn't help this obvious low budget effort out either any. This does deliver in one area which may delight some fans, it does offer up plenty of the T in "T & A", in fact practically every fight scene in the film is proceeded by some type of nude scene and Jeanne Bell actually does have one extended fight scene in which she is completely topless.In the end, this fails to be something you want to revisit because the fight scenes are so pathetically, laughingly bad.