Jackie Brown | | Cast : | Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster | | Director : | Quentin Tarantino | | Studio : | Miramax Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | December 25, 1997 | | DVD Released Date : | August 10, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | September 01, 2005 | | Summary | Exactly marvelous | Content
 | I don't really understand that this film didn't have any success but I belive it's a really wonderfull one.
Great actors like Samuel L Jackson, Pam Grier and Robert de Niro, shouldn't have risked their prestige for a piece of trash.
Please don't expect a romantic film or a superproduction, but an exciting film of the life of one human being that found herself involved in a big trouble, dressed with such wonderfull actors and directed in such a creative way by Quentin Tarantino.
If you don't like to know that some characters will be shooted ... then this isn't your film. If you like blody scenes, this isn't either your film ... if you cannot resist to have sexual scenes .. this have 1 ... if you like creative characters Jackie Brown is a smart character and I adore the way she solve her problems.
May be I will find some other 500 or 1000 films in my life that I can consider more artistic than this one, may be there are millons that have spended more economic and technology resourses, but I will hardly find 10 films that I enjoy watching more than this. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 31, 2005 | | Summary | Heaping on black culture my a** | Content
| Doug Thomas, your writing style is as tight-a**ed as your personality must be. Were you in a rush to splatter your half-witted thoughts on this movie because you had better things to do? Wow, even though your review is a pile of garbage, because you're a professional film critic, your smelling heap of empty-thoughted bullsh*t takes the privileged spot of primary review. Congratulations, your mom says she's proud.
Perhaps tea time prevented you form checking out the extras DVD included in the package... oh wait, you reviewed the VHS edition. Well, if you had done a lick of research, you'd've discovered that, *GASP*, Quentin grew up in black culture. Yeah, he had black friends and even went to schools populated heavily by black kids. And get this... you ready?... his mother dated... black guys! Now sit back, breathe in a bit, and utilize that liberal arts education I'm assuming you were at least exposed to, if not got a degree in: Artists - like Quentin - draw on their personal experiences in an effort to create an authentic piece of work. Heap on those pile of words.
How can a director be a lustful, minstrel-show-seeking culture-exploiter if he uses Bobby Womack, The Delfonics, Randy Crawford, Brothers Johnson, and Minnie Riperton in the score? Quentin didn't get any help with the script. That scene between Ordell and Beaumont on the balcony outside the latter's apartment was written by a white guy. Not even the most overzealous white-guy-wanting-desperately-more-than-anything-else-but-to-be-black could create something so sonically deft and authentic. A scene like that shows how Quentin is a respectful student of black culture, not some hand-wringing, cigar-smoking WASP wanting to take rap and use it in a Fruity Pebbles commercial at the height of RUN-DMC's success in the late 80s so he can sell more cereal for General Mills.
Music and dialogue carry this movie and are the two ingredients that make it such a pleasure to take in. The film's been described as "slow-moving," but people who say that don't realize that the pace is purposefully done slow so one can enjoy each characters' interactions. Sam Jackson's character, for as messed up as he is, is a piece of art. Charismatic dialogue. That's why I've watched the movie 3 times already, having seen it for the first time about a month ago.
If you're anything like this stiff critic whose review is posted at the top of this page (or the first page), you won't like this movie. However, if you're receptive of artful dialogue, non-predominently-white culture, and some awesome 70s soul/R&B music, this flick was made for you. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 16, 2005 | | Summary | Disappointing and satisfying all at the same time | Content
| This was the last film I watched that Quentin made(unless you count his segment in Four Rooms). The Kill Bill films were good but severe editing was needed. Reservoir Dogs was entertaining when it involved the escape from the heist and in the warehouse but the extra stuff dragged it. And Pulp Fiction is one of the better films of the 90's but to me, repeated viewings isn't very kind to it. So we have Jackie Brown which is the mark of a director maturing, unfortunately a little successfully so.
Ordell is an illegal gun salesman. He's got half a million in Mexico and his friend Jackie Brown just got out of jail so since feds are after him, she says that since she works as a flight attendant, she'll get the money and smuggle it in. Ordell's friend Louis and her stoner bunny friend Melanie might also be after the money. Not to mention one of the feds and Ordell's bondsman Max.
Some people were disappointed when the film came out because it wasn't as visceral as Reservoir Dogs or entertaining as Pulp Fiction but in a sense he tops Pulp Fiction in a way. This one actually gets better on repeated viewings while I kind of start to get antsy when Butch gets captured by Zed. If there's one thing that Jackie Brown doesn't do is make it's 2 and a half hour running time fly by. There were times where I thought the credits would come up only it kept going.
As for performances, the best ones are oddly the ones who have barely done work. Pam Grier and Robert Forrester are great in their roles. Samuel L. Jackson as usual as that kind of ***hole I'm the man persona who starts to get more monster-like as the movie goes on. Surprisingly, Chris Tucker in a very bit role(I'm talking at least 10 minutes if that) is quite good.
The DVD extras are similar to Pulp Fiction's(and thankfully not Reservoir Dogs I mean come on? A radio station? Action figures?) One of the better ones is a big sitdown with Quentin Tarantino in an interview with a somewhat audible interviewer. It's interesting and oddly enough, he can sound like a black person can sound.
It feels long, it's not as action-y as Pulp Fiction but it still manages to maintain your interest. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 01, 2005 | | Summary | An Underrated Masterpiece | Content
| Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown" had a bad reputation because of Quentin's earlier film, "Pulp Fiction". Most of the violence that was in "Pulp Fiction" is gone, but there is much more story in this brilliant adaptation of a classic novel written by Elmore Leanord called "Rum Punch".
One of Quentin Tarantino's usual actors, Samuel L. Jackson returns as the character Ordell. And apparently it's always been a dream of Tarantino's to work with the legendary Pam Grier. And she plays, you guessed it, Jackie Brown. Personally, I've never read Elmore Leanord's classic book. But, since I watched "Jackie Brown" on the I.F.C. channel, I know I will read it soon.
"Jackie Brown" tells the story of an illegal gunsalesman, Ordell and one of his best friends, Jackie. He has a half a million dollars from his sales stashed in Mexico. And Jackie is a stewardess and she knew where the money was, so, now, the money is pretty much floating around. And Jackie got in a little law trouble recently. A federal officer played by Michael Keaton is suspecting her of drug use and robbery. But Ordell got her out of jail. Now, even if Ordell's friend Louis, Jackie, his girlfriend Melanie or somebody else gets killed, it's all about the money.
"Jackie Brown" features great preformances by especially Pam Grier, and, well, all the actors do extravagent work. The Collector's Edition DVD is what any fan of the movie cannot do without. "The documentary Jackie Brown: How It Went Down is basically a vacuous cast-and-crew lovefest, but their enthusiasm is genuine, and the other bonus features are consistently worthwhile. A 54-minute interview with Quentin Tarantino seems excessive until you fully appreciate the writer-director's passionate devotion to movies and movie knowledge; film students are advised to listen attentively. The gem of the bunch, however, is the complete "Chicks with Guns" infomercial that's partially seen in Jackie Brown; it's like the NRA meets the Snap-on tools calendar girls! For those seeking pop-cultural perspective, trailers for films starring Robert Forster and Pam Grier demonstrate the rigors of survival in Hollywood, making their Jackie Brown comebacks even more gratifying. At least one deleted scene is a classic, as Grier cracks up Michael Keaton with an improvised zinger. Digging deeper, there's a well-chosen archive of reviews and articles, and DVD-ROM features allowing movie playback with informative text and trivia or side by side with the complete screenplay.".
Don't waste any more of your time. Buy Jackie Brown!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 21, 2005 | | Summary | Good actors involved but still lacks punch. | Content
| Jackie Brown a Quentin Tarantino film is one of those films that brings an assorment of good acting talent laced with rare but good 70 music and feroicus dialouge, the problem is they did not blend well together thus making the storyline long, boring and played out long before the credits roll. Based On famed crime author Elmore Leonard's "Rum Punch" Pam Grier of the 70's black explotation craze is an flight attendent who gets mixed up with a gunrunner, FBI and a bail bondsman over a stash of millon dollars which is brought in illegaly into the U.S Apart from the music and great actors the film is weak and often times fails misrably to sustain the audeience's attention to views these moraly corrutpetd indidvduals for nearly 2 hours. Now i see why it did poorly at the box office. But I must admit Pam Grier Is still one hot looking woman after all these years but her sexy persona and charm isn't enough to save this film. |
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