Dokta Yo!

Starring: Will Smith (James Bond), Eminem (Dokta Yo!), Beyonce (Solitaire), Eddie Murphy (Felix Leiter), Tina Turner (М), Halle Berry (Miss Moneypenny), Samuel L. Jackson (Q), Colin Salmon (Charles Robinson)...

Tina Turner as M

The legendary film Dokta Yo! could be the most politically correct and unusual in the Bond series, since almost all the roles there (including OO7) are played by Afroamericans. The reason is the plot of the novel written by Ian F. Lemming (who never was much of PC himself), where 007 fights a powerful Harlem gang. In order to avoid some touchy implications, the producers chose Afroamerican actors for all the roles (both negative and positive ones), all except for the master villain: to make the film even more PC, the role of the evil Dokta Yo!, the head of the Harlem gang, was offered to a white person - the most scandalous rapper Eminem.

Eddie Murphy
as Felix Leiter

The choice of the musician is not random: his character, Dokta Yo!, is the most celebrated gangsta rap star, and he even performs several songs in the movie, written by the artist specially for the soundtrack.

But few people realize that charismatic Dokta Yo! (teenagers' idol across the whole world) is actually a powerful drug-lord, who uses the magic power of rhyme and rhythm for inveigling the naïve Harlem youth into his ever growing gang, with the showbiz being yet another way of laundering money.

And while Dokta Yo! revels in his fame and widens his criminal empire, the British government, worried by the surge of drugs from the USA, orders OO7 (Will Smith) to find and destroy the source of the scum, i.e. Dokta Yo!

Beyonce as Solitaire

The trail leads to New York where James Bond, together with his CIA colleague Felix Leiter (Eddie Murphy), has to face the numerous army of Dokta Yo!

Fortunately and unexpectedly, OO7 comes across an ally in the enemy camp - the villain's mistress, ambitious miss Solitaire, who, as it happens quite frequently in the cruel and treacherous world of showbiz, has been thinking about breaking away from her patron, finding a producer, and starting her own musical career. Bond promises Solitaire to help her out, on one condition, though: she helps him to get Dokta Yo!

Together they eliminate the villain along with his gang.

Yo!

© 2005 January 25th, Vlad Pavlov