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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Quentin Tarantino
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Actors:
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Chris Tucker,
Aimee Graham,
Tangie Ambrose,
Pam Grier,
Samuel L. Jackson,
Robert Forster,
Bridget Fonda,
Michael Keaton,
Robert De Niro,
Michael Bowen,
Lisa Gay Hamilton,
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister,
Hattie Winston,
Sid Haig,
Ellis Williams
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Duration:
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154 min.
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Rating:
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(7.6/10)137.5
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Plot Summary:
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44 year old flight follower Jackie Brown gets caught with gun tradesman Ordell Robbie's filthy lucre and to attire the ATF rotten her past due she sets up Ordell with her new friend, a bail bondsman named Max Cherry. But what the ATF doesn't know, is that they are fragment of her wild plan to get Ordell's half million dollars and go off scott free. However, she has to do it under the control of the noses of both Ordell, the ATF valet and a city cop. What she doesn't know is Ordell's blonde seashore bunny wants the money someone is concerned herself as does Ordell's ex-con SW compadre.
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Jackie Brown
Blaxploitation star Pam Grier is Jackie Brown, ageing, desperate, sexy and sassy. Quentin Tarantino is the smart director. A cool combination
Quentin Tarantino's familiar trademarks are already here: a playfulness with narrative and language, a scattering of film references, a cool, soul-based soundtrack and dark suggestions of violence.
However, with a female lead and a tender portrayal of older characters making decisions that will change their lives irrevocably, it is a rebuttal to critics keen to dismiss him as a one-trick pony incapable of addressing anything outside his own macho, movie-geek world.
Grier is a fine lead as Jackie Brown, an air hostess desperately playing off cops against criminals in an attempt to stay out of jail and get paid ...
Unsure.
I really don't know how to review this. Let me start by saying that no, I did not enjoy this. It didn't seem like the most developed story. De Niro was completely miscast- and is it just me or did Samuel Jackson's character completely change as the film progressed?
By change I mean; his characters starts of like the ultra-cool, clever man like his role in 'Pulp Fiction' but he seems to get weaker as the film goes on. Maybe this is character development- but it didn't feel like that.. his character seemed to fall victim of the pacing of the film... I dunno..
Did I dislike the film because of my high expectations of Quentin Tarantino? I did my best to watch the film and judge it on it's merits, but maybe I was sitting there hoping for a masterpiece. ...
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