Review of Cotton Comes to Harlem

What the heck is going on here??? Apparently this is based off of a book but after seeing this movie, I have no desire to read it. There's a whole lot of characters and not a lot of ways to connect the dots. The one cop, Raymond St. Jacques, has one emotion, rage. Throughout the entire movie. This is listed as a comedy yet I only laughed twice. I thought he was going to be the good cop but he's just full anger. He's slapping the s hit out of any and everyone including women, shooting his gun off with no forethought and causing much damge to the city. All over a missing $87k. Yeah, I know it was 1970. But still, $87k??? He and his partner, Jeffrey Cambridge never seem to be off duty. Cambridge shows promise of humor but he is poorly matched with Mr. Rage in Harlem. Blaxploitation?? How about femalexploitation? I've seen very few blaxploitation movies but the sexism is truly off-putting if you're a self respecting woman. Numerous gratuitous shots of women nude but the one shot of the cop undressing they conveniently turn out the lights. This movie is just a hot mess. If you're looking for laughs, you won't find it here. Oh wait, a guy did get a pie thrown in his face. I gave this movie a 3 and only because of Calvin Lockhart. He played the role of the charlatan well. As an older review stated, the bungled plot and the angry (abusive) cop leaves the viewer hoping for the redemption of O'Malley moreso than the need to root for the police officers.