{"id":14386,"date":"2026-04-30T23:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=14386"},"modified":"2026-05-30T16:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:53:12","slug":"one-spoon-of-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2026\/04\/30\/one-spoon-of-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"One Spoon of Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"One Spoon of Chocolate<\/strong> (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 36 Cinema Distribution\/Action-Thriller-Drama\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 112 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong violence, some gore, language throughout including racial slurs, sexual content\/nudity, drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: RZA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: RZA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Tyler Bates\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Brandon Cox\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 1, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Shameik Moore, RJ Cyler, Harry Goodwins, Paris Jackson, Blair Underwood, Johnell Young, Michael Harney, Rockmond Dunbar, E\u2019myri Crutchfield, James Lee Thomas, Michael Bekemeier, Brandon Bonilla, Jason Vendryes.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0So many questions, so many questions. So many questions filled my head as I walked into the theater lobby after seeing One Spoon of Chocolate<\/strong>, the latest film from RZA, the Wu-Tang Clan rapper who branched out into filmmaking more than a decade ago with the gonzo martial arts flick The Man with the Iron Fists (2012). It was a messy one (narratively speaking), but it knew enough not to take itself seriously. Unfortunately, that\u2019s the new movie\u2019s biggest liability. It\u2019s way too serious and self-important for a supposed B-movie revenge thriller.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Now we come to the moment of truth. How should I approach my review of One Spoon of Chocolate<\/strong>? Should I review it as a critic or a movie lover? I know, I\u2019ll review it as a critical movie lover. It\u2019ll be the best (or worst) of both worlds. It\u2019ll be fun, you\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The action centers on Unique (Moore from the animated Spider-Verse films), an Iraq War vet\/ex-con who goes to live with his cousin Ramsee (Cyler, Night Patrol) after getting the okay from his parole officer (Underwood, Krush Groove). It doesn\u2019t take long for him to learn that the small Ohio town of Karensville is ruled by a white supremacist gang run by local creep Jimmy (Goodwins, The Gentlemen), the son of the town\u2019s extremely racist sheriff (Harney, The Iron Claw). Naturally, Unique runs afoul of the gang and his cousin ends up dead, murdered. He spends the rest of the movie planning his revenge while they try to track him down.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Wait, there\u2019s more to One Spoon of Chocolate<\/strong>. Writer-director takes a cue from Get Out with the inclusion of a subplot involving black men meeting a fate worse than instant death. There\u2019s a reason the town tops the list of most organs donated. Some powerful locals are running a black market organ ring. It works like this. Jimmy\u2019s thugs beat down victims, their organs are removed and their deaths are made to look like accidents. This is what happens to another one of Unique\u2019s cousins at the beginning of the movie.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Okay, let\u2019s talk about the beginning of One Spoon of Chocolate<\/strong> for a minute. It\u2019s weird. The aforementioned cousin is walking down a lonely road hitchhiking. He\u2019s picked up by a car full of hot young girls. Say what? This is a scenario out of a teen comedy or a porno movie. You would never see this happen in an action movie unless….. uh huh, it\u2019s a set-up! The victim-to-be goes into a convenience store to buy booze only to come out and find the gang waiting for him with baseball bats in hand. Now here\u2019s my other question. Why would he put himself in that position to begin with? He knows there\u2019s a violent gang of racists running around. Obviously, he was thinking with the wrong head, but still.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Here\u2019s another question I have about One Spoon of Chocolate<\/strong>. When is it supposed to be taking place? They never mention a year or even a decade. It can\u2019t be now. Know how I can tell? No cell phones, no computers, no mention of social media. In one scene, somebody uses a pay phone. Those have been gone for quite a while now. I\u2019m guessing it takes place sometime in the late 90s\/early 00s due to mention of Iraq and Kuwait. It definitely feels like a movie out of our time.<\/p>\n

\u00a0You might have noticed the \u201cQuentin Tarantino Presents\u201d tagline on the poster. He\u2019s one of the film\u2019s executive producers. He served the same function on The Man with the Iron Fists. It makes sense. He was RZA\u2019s mentor on the set of Kill Bill for which he composed the score. The rapper learned about filmmaking from QT. He\u2019s still learning. It shows in the film\u2019s sloppy execution.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It\u2019s time for me to be brutally honest about One Spoon of Chocolate<\/strong>. It\u2019s a mess. It\u2019s poorly written and badly directed. It has a nice grindhouse aesthetic, but RZA should have followed suit in terms of story and tone. He lets it get weighed down by a heavy-handed message about racism in modern-day America. It\u2019s not supposed to be that kind of movie. At least I don\u2019t think it is. I didn\u2019t get that impression from the trailer. I thought it would be more of a B-movie with plenty of action and bloody violence. One Spoon of Chocolate<\/strong> has all that plus a fair amount of gratuitous nudity, but it\u2019s not as fun as it should be due to the seriousness with which it takes itself.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The acting is bad as well. It\u2019s amateurish for the most part. Harney, as the sheriff, is clearly imitating Rod Steiger from In the Heat of the Night except with more n-words. Moore\u2019s lines sound totally rehearsed, especially in the climax when he delivers a Rambo-esque monologue about the history of black people in America.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Ah yes, the ending. One Spoon of Chocolate<\/strong> has a cool blood-soaked finale in which Unique goes up against the whole gang by himself with a few homemade weapons. That part I like. I didn\u2019t care for how RZA left things at the end. Neither did several members of the audience. One gentleman shouted, \u201cThis is some bull****!\u201d That sums it up succinctly.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I know what you\u2019re asking. Did I like One Spoon of Chocolate<\/strong> or not? The answer is yes for the most part. It\u2019s badly made yet I admire RZA for realizing his vision his way. He still has a lot to learn about tone and nuance, balancing the serious with the silly, but he\u2019s definitely got something going for him. Also, I love watching a**hole racists get what they deserve. Who doesn\u2019t?\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One Spoon of Chocolate (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 36 Cinema Distribution\/Action-Thriller-Drama\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 112 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong violence, some gore, language throughout including racial slurs, sexual content\/nudity, drug use)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: RZA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: RZA\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Tyler Bates\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Brandon Cox\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 1, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Shameik Moore, RJ Cyler, Harry Goodwins, Paris Jackson, Blair Underwood, Johnell Young, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-action-adventure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/One-Spoon-of-Chocolate-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14389,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386\/revisions\/14389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}