Jackie Brown
Six players on the trail of a half a million in Cash. There's only one question... Who's playing who?
Overview
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan—with help from a bail bondsman—to keep the money for herself. Based on Elmore Leonard's novel “Rum Punch”.
This film is the perfect example of the difference between a good movie and what people have come to believe to be good movies.
In a nutshell, the movie is about a money transfer and some overt double-crossing. If you watched this film and think that sums up the movie you didn’t see the movie. As it was said in “White Men Can’t Jump”, some people listen to Hendrix but they don’t hear him (I’m paraphrasing).
The film stars Pam Grier as a stewardess that got mixed up with small-time crook Samuel L Jackson. Jackson plays a similar role to what he played in Pulp Fiction but I must say that I liked this role even more. What is better than Jackson in that kind of role?
What makes the movie is the characters. Rather than the movie being about this or that, you get a real feel for the characters. There is a texture to the movie that must be felt to understand the movie. In typical Tarantino style, all of this was completely understated. If this had been a typical Hollywood movie there would have been an affair between two of the leads and the money transfer would have been the highlight of the movie. Not Tarantino – he did it his way.
One more thing. The music is FANTASTIC, both in the songs themselves and their use in the movie. Nobody does this better than Tarantino. The opening five minutes are amazing.
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Jackie Brown
Movie title: Jackie Brown
Movie description: Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan—with help from a bail bondsman—to keep the money for herself. Based on Elmore Leonard's novel “Rum Punch”.
Date published: 2009-12-11
Director(s): Quentin Tarantino
Actor(s): Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert Forster, Michael Bowen, Chris Tucker, LisaGay Hamilton, Tom Lister Jr., Hattie Winston, Sid Haig, Aimee Graham, Ellis E. Williams, Tangie Ambrose, T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, Vanessia Valentino, Diana Uribe, Renee Kelly, Elizabeth McInerney, Colleen Mayne, Laura Lovelace, Christine Lydon, Julia Ervin, Juliet Long, Michelle Berube, Gillian White, Candice Briese, Gary Mann, Jeffrey Deedrick, Roy Nesvold, Herbert Hans Wilmsen, Mary Ann Schmidt, Glendon Rich, Denise Crosby, Quentin Tarantino
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
My Review
This film is the perfect example of the difference between a good movie and what people have come to believe to be good movies.
In a nutshell, the movie is about a money transfer and some overt double-crossing. If you watched this film and think that sums up the movie you didn’t see the movie. As it was said in “White Men Can’t Jump”, some people listen to Hendrix but they don’t hear him (I’m paraphrasing).
The film stars Pam Grier as a stewardess that got mixed up with small-time crook Samuel L Jackson. Jackson plays a similar role to what he played in Pulp Fiction but I must say that I liked this role even more. What is better than Jackson in that kind of role?
What makes the movie is the characters. Rather than the movie being about this or that, you get a real feel for the characters. There is a texture to the movie that must be felt to understand the movie. In typical Tarantino style, all of this was completely understated. If this had been a typical Hollywood movie there would have been an affair between two of the leads and the money transfer would have been the highlight of the movie. Not Tarantino – he did it his way.
One more thing. The music is FANTASTIC, both in the songs themselves and their use in the movie. Nobody does this better than Tarantino. The opening five minutes are amazing.
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My Review - 9.25/10
9.25/10