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Production Year: 1997 - Drama - Director: Quentin Tarantino - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over more

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Quentin Tarantino returns to the crime genre once again with this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's RUM PUNCH. Transplanting Leonard's crime story from Miami to Tarantino's city of...
more...choice, Los Angeles, JACKIE BROWN cruises along smoothly, much like the film's 1970s soul soundtrack. The film follows Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), a flight attendant who makes extra cash by running drugs and cash for sleazebag Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson). When Jackie sees the opportunity to make off with a large chunk of change, she begins to play everyone around her, including two detectives who are threatening her with jail time if she doesn't rat out Ordell, and a sympathetic bail bondsman (Robert Forster) who finds himself falling for Jackie.
Tarantino sets a pace that is laid back and groovy, building to an eventual climax that determines whether or not Jackie walks away with the booty. In much the same way that Tarantino resuscitated John Travolta's career with PULP FICTION, he does the same thing here with Grier and Forster. Overall, JACKIE BROWN is a less in-your-face effort than Tarantino's previous films, but it's this downshift in gears that makes it so refreshing.





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Jackie Brown - too similar to others in the genre to be a classic in its own right
A review by BIGHORSE on Jackie Brown DVD
August 4th, 2000


Author's product rating:   Jackie Brown DVD - rated by BIGHORSE

Did you enjoy it? Indifferent to it 
Story Good 
Characters / Performances Good 
Special Effects Unmemorable 
How does it compare to similar films? Good 

Advantages: Great work from some talented actors
Disadvantages: Seems like at least some of it has been done before

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

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Jackie Brown is another Tarantino-style film that offers an interesting role for Robert De Niro and yet another job for Samuel L Jackson. At around the two and a half hour mark, this sadly is one of those films about which the most commonly said thing is that it is a good half hour too long. However, this is not to say that it is not worth watching. Jackson plays a gun runner who needs to get money from over the border in Mexico back into the USA and uses various moles to achieve this, one of which is Jackie Brown, an airline stewardess. The ending is very much that of a film of this genre, and although interesting one has to feel that it has been done before.
 
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