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The curiosity of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown is Robert Forster's worldly wise bail bondsman Max Cherry, the most alive character in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch. The Academy Awards saw it the same way, giving Forster the film's only nomination. The film is more 'rum' than 'punch' and will certainly disappoint those who are looking for Tarantino's trademark style. This movie is a slow, decaffeinated story of six characters glued to a half million dollars brought illegally into the country. The money belongs to Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), a gunrunner just bright enough to control his universe and do his own dirty work. His just-paroled friend--a loose term with Ordell--Louis (Robert De Niro) is just taking up space and could be interested in the money. However, his loyalties are in question between his old partner and Ordell's doped-up girl (Bridget Fonda). Certainly Fed Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) wants to arrest Ordell with the illegal money. The key is the title character, a late-40s-ish flight attendant (Pam Grier) who can pull her own weight and soon has both sides believing she's working for them. The end result is rarely in doubt, and what is left is two hours of Tarantino's expert dialogue as he moves his characters around town.
Tarantino changed the race of Jackie and Ordell, a move that means little except that it allows Tarantino to heap on black culture and language, something he has a gift and passion for. He said this film is for an older audience although the language and drug use may put them off. The film is not a salute to Grier's blaxploitation films beyond the musical score. Unexpectedly the most fascinating scenes are between Grier and Forster: two neo-stars glowing in the limelight of their first major Hollywood film after decades of work. --Doug Thomas
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Rating:  - Deserves more Respect!
In virtually every scene of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown (Miramax), you know you are watching a movie by the creator of Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, but the fizz? the exhilaration? -- eh -- it is missing-- er -- if not altogether gone. It is like viewing Pulp Fiction through bulletproof glass. Adapting the 1992 Elmore Leonard novel Rum Punch, Tarantino spins a twisty crime yarn that, on the surface, at least, appears to have most of the qualities that gave his earlier films their wild narcotic ... Read More
Rating:  - One of the worst movies made...
Something funny happened to me today. I looked down at my DVD player and I saw the numbers 2:30. I became ENRAGED. Why? No, it's not because anything bad happend to me at 2:30 but because I just realized that I had been watching one of the worst films ever made, for an entire TWO AND A HALF HOURS! That's what I deserve for going near anything that Tarantino got within 100 yards of... OK, I liked Pulp Fiction & Dusk Til' Dawn & thought Natural Born Killers was GREAT. Thank GOD he only ... Read More
Rating:  - Oh so cool with style to spare; one of Tarantino's best moves...
Quinton Tarantino is one of those directors you either love or hate, but there is no denying that he has talent, and what makes his talent even more obvious is his rich sense of style. Tarantino has a very unique charm that he layers his films with, giving them such warm originality.
Much like with directors Baz Luhrmann and David Fincher, a Quinton Tarantino film is undeniably a film by Quinton Tarantino.
With that said; the fact that some have criticized `Jackie Brown' for being ... Read More
Rating: - Might Be Quentin's Best....
4 and 1/2 Stars.
The story of a 44 yr old black woman struggling to get over a criminal past and a mid-life crisis serves as an unlikely follow-up to Quentin Tarantino's enormously successful 'Pulp Fiction'. This film, a much more character driven piece, is probably his most realistic and linear of the five he's completed.
The plot revolves around a gun-runner's attempt to traffic his money while being pressured by the ATF. But the clever part of the movie has to do with it's shift ... Read More
Rating: - Non Receipt of Item to be Reviewed
I have attempted on two separate occasions to purchase this item through Amazon.com... In each instance I was told that the order had been cancelled and my money refunded to me... Hence I have never received this purchase...
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