Today cinephiles consider Gordon Parks Jr.'s "Three the Hard Way," an action vehicle starring Jim Brown, Jim Kelly and Fred Williamson, to be a classic. But back in the day, veteran film critic Elvis Mitchell found the plot to be laughable.
Mitchell, who directed, executive produced and wrote the Netflix documentary "Is That Black Enough For You?!?" recalls that when he first saw it, he said as much his father: Imagine putting a chemical that would kill all Black people in the water supplies of major cities. Who'd think of that? "And my father said to me when the movie was over, 'You don't know about the Tuskegee experiment, do you?' I went, 'They experimented on Tuskegee?'"
