



When the evening is done, Priest and his girlfriend Georgia exit the club and while waiting for his car to be brought around, is heckled by a decidedly drunk and possibly stoned Juju. A fist fight breaks out between the two which quickly sees Priest dispense with Juju and a couple of other Snow Patrol goons. After the fracas has subsided, and with his back turned Juju rises, pulls his gun and fires. In that split second, Priest has turned around and dodges the bullet, literally, as it hurtles past him and into the stomach of a young girl standing nearby with two friends. Juju is quickly bundled into a car and whisked away. Priest hands the girls a wad of rolled up bank notes and says get to the hospital, and quickly exits stage left. And so the scene is set.
Next Priest meets with his best mate and right hand man Eddie. Priest overnight has made up his mind to exit the game after that violent attack that so easily could have taken his life. He discusses the fact with Eddie who is less inclined to give up the good life and the wealth they have accumulated, and are still yet to make. Priest convinces Eddie to take on one last job, but a big one, that will see them be able to 'retire' somewhere else but here, and never have to worry about money again.
Priest visits his mentor Scatter who took him in when he was but a young lad, but showed a lot of promise, and they have been firm friends ever since. Scatter now runs a 'legitimate' mixed martial arts and kickboxing gym, whilst running coke on the side. Priest attempts to convince Scatter to give him a greater slice of the pie and to divulge his source in attempt to build his empire and establish connections much further afield. Scatter is however, nonchalant about Priest's motives and declines. Priest and Eddie follow Scatter as he drives the long journey from Atlanta down to El Paso, where the pair spy Scatter having a roadside conversation with a shady looking Mexican type watched over by several heavily armed goons. The meeting is brief and they part company. Priest and Eddie follow the Mexicans car as it crosses the border into Mexico and parks up behind a busy street market.
Priest orders Eddie to keep the motor running, to wait and he'll be back soon. As Priest goes on foot stealthily searching out his quarry, he rounds a truck to come face to face with a loaded weapon, and the Mexican head honcho Adalberto Gonzalez (Esai Morales), whose henchmen bind and blindfold him, and bundle their captive into a private jet. Flying high above Mexico, Gonzalez questions Priest and threatens the worst when satisfactory answers are not forthcoming. Priest maintains his cool, and starts up a conversation about the Mexican Soccer Team about which they are both knowledgeable and passionate. Priest then starts on about the matriarch of the family, Gonzalez mother, and how his brother is languishing in some Mexican jail courtesy of Gonzalez who put his elder sibling away for the good of the family. As a result of Priest's fast talking he is spared from being thrown out of the plane at 20,000 feet, and instead strikes up a deal with his new supplier to move three times the quantity of coke that Scatter was moving. Priest though has to come up with the front money to pay for his first consignment, which he is able to do.
Gonzalez releases Priest, and he meets up with Eddie some hours later, and explains what went down. The pair are now in the big league and back home in Atlanta the first consignment of packaged cocaine in five kilo bags makes its way across the border and into Priest's hands. Expanding his distribution network through close business associates, Priest and Eddie are quickly counting more money than they know what to do with. They celebrate with a party at their house to thank their colleagues.

The next day Priest and Eddie are paid a visit by Mason and Franklin who want in on their action 50/50, plus a good will down payment of one million dollars to be collected by the end of the week. Reluctantly Priest agrees. Eddie is mortified. The pair fight out of frustration with the situation and Eddie's lack of faith now in his long term partner. They go their separate ways. Immediately following Racks funeral, Mason and Franklin pull up in their car, and Priest hands over a stash of cash amounting to a million bucks. Meanwhile, Eddie ordered a hit on Snow Patrol without Priest's knowledge. Several of Snow Patrol's goons are killed in the barber shop where they all congregated. Juju narrowly escaped and swore vengeance on Priest. Q now is also convinced that Priest was behind the hit.
Later, Scatter realises that Priest has betrayed him and has muscled in on his supply chain and is none too pleased. He takes him to meet up with Gonzalez, hoping for a reconciliation, but the Mexican drug lord has other plans. He shoots Scatter dead saying that he was small time compared to Priest and that he was skimming a little off the top every month for many years hoping that Gonzalez wouldn't notice. But he did, and Scatter paid the price for his betrayal. Gonzalez also says that he had heard that Priest was looking to get out, a fact that Priest denies to remain in favour for the time being. Priest remains calm, but lets rip with his emotions when he is alone again in his car.
And so, Priest has formed an unfriendly alliance with two crooked cops; his Mexican supply chain has killed his long term mentor and has said that he can never leave the business; a rival gang is hot on his tail trying to rub him out; and he has fought with his best buddy and business partner. It looks like Priest's world is about to come crashing down on him. But Priest is Superfly, street smart, fast talking, quick thinking, well connected, level headed and always has a plan, and of course, needless to say it all comes out sunshine and rainbows for the Superfly guy in the end. He and Georgia relax on the back of a yacht sailing into the sunset somewhere off Montenegro, while Eddie is back in Atlanta having made up his differences with Priest, doing what he does best.

'Superfly' merits three claps of the Odeon Online clapperboard from a possible five.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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