FILM
THEY CLONED TYRONE
BLAXPLOITATION IS BACK — AND IT’S MULTIPLYING
Fontaine (John Boyega), Yo-Yo (Teyonah Parris) and Slick Charles (Jamie Foxx); Car trouble.
★★★★
OUT NOW (NETFLIX) / CERT TBC / 122 MINS
DIRECTOR Juel Taylor
CAST John Boyega, Teyonah Parris, Jamie Foxx, David Alan Grier, Kiefer Sutherland
PLOT Drug dealer Fontaine (Boyega), sex worker Yo-Yo (Parris) and pimp Slick Charles (Foxx) uncover a government conspiracy in their neighbourhood.
IT’S NOT OFTEN that a film can be accurately described as a sci-fi, mystery, action-comedy, thriller and Blaxploitation. It’s a credit to Juel Taylor — here making his directorial debut — that They Cloned Tyrone’s mishmash of genres doesn’t result in a tonal mess. Rather, it’s a consistently hilarious ride, where the laughs never dull the poignant, sharply observed messages at its centre.