Shaft emerges in [Shaft's Big Score] as a highly lethal and effective weapon of destruction and not much else….

Gordon Parks directed and keeps things moving at great speed to cover up the picture's emptiness. There is a chase sequence at the end which borrows from all the other successful chase sequences with which we've been peppered of late.

Shaft's Big Score's kinetic values are many. That's good because its creative assets are meager. (p. 505)

Hubbell Robinson, "Film Reviews: 'Shaft's Big Score'," in Films in Review (copyright © 1972 by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, Inc.), Vol XXIII, No. 8, October, 1972, pp. 504-05.