Jackie Brown (DVD)

I looked toward watching “Jackie Brown” with very, VERY high expectations that this would be one of the all-time great gangster films of our modern era. I mean, when you look at the credentials, there’s no escaping it, isn’t there? Quentin “Pulp Fiction” Tarantino, master of everything slick, witty, cool and violent adapts Elmore Leonard’s crime novel “Rum Punch”. Elmore Leonard, you say? Well, he was only that guy who wrote the novel, that the fantastic George Clooney vehicle “Out Of Sight” was based on. He’s only one of the best crime novelists EVER, combining (mostly) original storylines ...  Read the complete review

I like to think I know my cinema. I can bandy the word ?noir? around when I get confused, rattle off a dozen French director?s names to impress the chicks, and slag the mass-produced Hollywood blockbusters like I?d be the first to knock $20 million back to star in The Mummy VI. However, the big question I ask, come the end of any film, is, ?Was that cool, or did it suck?? It?s a technical analysis, but one that serves me well. In the case of Quentin Tarantino?s 1997 offering, Jackie Brown, the answer to the all-important question is ?Yes?. Jackie Brown is a very cool film. Although based heavily on ol? Elmore Leonard?s novel Rum Punch, Jackie Brown is clearly a ...  Read the complete review

While at times I have found Quentin Tarantino's nonlinear storytelling quite frustrating, I do tend to enjoy his movies. Jackie Brown, his third as a director, may not seem like the most stylistic of his works within the first sitting -- especially when it has Pulp Fiction to contend with -- but it's a film that will grow on you each time you watch it. The leisurely pace is one of the main reasons why I like it so much. So, what is Jackie Brown about? Well, the title character (Pam Grier) works as a flight attendant for a small Mexican airline, who also smuggles illicit arms money into America for gun merchant Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson). The FEDS soon ...  Read the complete review

Quentin Tarantino aka a God among directors, along with the likes of Sam Mendes and David Lynch is responsible for a trio of outstanding movies that defy all cliché, or anything relatively usual. Tarantino is currently in the process of a fourth addition to these series of hard-hitting ass-kicking films, baptized Kill Bill (the name alone makes me want to wet my pants ? no please don?t run away now) and will star Uma Thurman (methinks he has a particular liking for this young lady). QT has established himself a sublime reputation that a sea of directors fail to live up to, and that?s why we love his movies so much. Since our introduction to Mr T in Reservoir Dogs we have ...  Read the complete review

There is one word which describes the start of Jackie Brown, and that word is funky. The music creates the ambience, but it is Jackie Brown herself, played by the amazing Pam Grier, who struts across our screen, and even in her plain air stewardess uniform, this woman oozes sexiness, and is funky in a way a man could never be. You can sense her attitude before she even utters a word. The film is about six people trying to make half a million dollars their own, and they know that they can trust nobody, but they are never sure who is really double crossing them. At first glance it looks like a simple film, but you cannot afford to take that for granted as the ...  Read the complete review