Insufferable Main Character Ruins What Could Have Been Fun
Oh how I wanted to like this movie.
It has all the ingredients to be great. Charismatic lead actress, cool name, main theme tune. A good set up for lots of action.
We could have had another Foxy Brown here with Lady Cocoa.
But alas, it was not to be.
Because Lady Cocoa herself is such an insufferable, awful, loud-mouthed know-it-all that within 30 minutes I was wishing she'd just get shot already.
Rarely have I seen such an unlikeable main character in a Blaxploitation movie.
Lola Falana has the acting chops and charm to be an excellent lead. But the script writers confused arrogance for confidence, quoting philosophy like it's scripture for intelligence, and a nasty mean-streak a mile wide for charm.
No wonder we never got a Lady Cocoa sequel. No one in the entire world would ever want to see this awful character ever again.
It has all the ingredients to be great. Charismatic lead actress, cool name, main theme tune. A good set up for lots of action.
We could have had another Foxy Brown here with Lady Cocoa.
But alas, it was not to be.
Because Lady Cocoa herself is such an insufferable, awful, loud-mouthed know-it-all that within 30 minutes I was wishing she'd just get shot already.
Rarely have I seen such an unlikeable main character in a Blaxploitation movie.
Lola Falana has the acting chops and charm to be an excellent lead. But the script writers confused arrogance for confidence, quoting philosophy like it's scripture for intelligence, and a nasty mean-streak a mile wide for charm.
No wonder we never got a Lady Cocoa sequel. No one in the entire world would ever want to see this awful character ever again.
- jethrojohn
- Apr 27, 2021