Jackie Brown (1997)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 74
Fresh: 64 | Rotten: 10
Tarantino's third film, fashioned as a comeback vehicle for star Pam Grier, offers typical wit and charm -- and is typically overstuffed.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 7
Tarantino's third film, fashioned as a comeback vehicle for star Pam Grier, offers typical wit and charm -- and is typically overstuffed.
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Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1995 Rum Punch, switching the action from Miami to LA, and altering the central character from white to black. Ruthless arms dealer Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson), who lives with perpetually stoned beach-babe Melanie (Bridget Fonda), teams with his old buddy Louis Gara (Robert De Niro), just released from prison after serving four years for armed robbery. ATF agent Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) and cop Mark Dargus
Dec 25, 1997 Wide
Aug 5, 1998
Miramax Films
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Cast
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Pam Grier
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Samuel L. Jackson
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Robert Forster
Max Cherry -
Bridget Fonda
Melanie -
Michael Keaton
Ray Nicolette -
Robert De Niro
Louis Gara -
Michael Bowen
Mark Dargus -
Chris Tucker
Beaumont Livingston -
Lisa Gay Hamilton
Sheronda -
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister
Winston -
Hattie Winston
Simone -
Aimee Graham
Amy (Billingsley Sales ... -
Sid Haig
Judge -
Denise Crosby
Attorney -
Quentin Tarantino
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All Critics (76) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (64) | Rotten (10) | DVD (39)
The tale is filled with funny, gritty Tarantino lowlife gab and a respectable body count, but what is most striking is the film's gallantry and sweetness.
Top CriticQuentin Tarantino puts together a fairly intricate and relatively uninvolving money-smuggling plot, but his cast is so good that you probably won't feel cheated.
The film is more Jarmusch than Peckinpah -- its soul is in the minutiae.
Offers an abundance of pleasures, especially in the realm of characterization and atmosphere.
It's like a scuzz-bucket film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick at his most static-mesmeric.
Tarantino's finest, most mature movie to date.
While Jackie Brown can be too languid, drifting like one of Melanie's highs, its wearied, over-40 lows reveal Tarantino as a director who, once upon a crime, could've mined complexity and depth from the cracks and crevices of American genre movies.
A much moodier, slower pace from Tarantino's other work, but Jackie Brown is one enjoyable flick that rewards its audience with each viewing.
might be his best film
Succeeds as a witty Elmore Leonard crime story...but also as a surprisingly affecting mid-life romance. [Blu-ray]
Tarantino's films aren't so much stories as strings of anecdotes: movie moments, urban myths, conversations strewn with pop culture references.
Mellower Tarantino still has sex, drugs, swearing, murder.
Loaded with all the crisp dialogue, trademark camera work, and memorable characters that we've come to expect from every Tarantino film.
Consider it a superb Elmore Leonard adaptation by a filmmaker who knows how to serve someone else's material while making it his own.
That this modest crime thriller can't quite live up to its audacious dance across so many strata of hip and hommage and self-referential cool it makes your head spin is hardly a surprise, or even a criticism.
When you absolutely, positively got to thrill every mother****er in the room, accept no substitutes. Jackie Brown is the AK-47 in Tarantino's arsenal.
Tarantino's tribute to creative influences, writer Elmor Leonard and blaxploitation star Grier, results in a more mature but less audacious film; last shot, taken from Queen Christina, only shows how magical Garbo was and Grier isn't
These are unquestionably Tarantino's greatest characters, and the actors eat them up with verve.
Forster and Grier have real chemistry in their limited time together on-screen. Forster has star-quality presence and is used well by Tarantino.
Those who were waiting to see Quentin Tarantino, a k a the most annoying man in Hollywood, fall flat on his face are likely to be disappointed with Jackie Brown.
Audience Reviews for Jackie Brown
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- Jackie Brown: Shut your raggedy ass up and sit the fuck down!
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- Ordell Robbie: Fuck's wrong with you, knockin' on the door like the goddamned police?
- Ordell Robbie: You lookin' to get shot?
- Max Cherry: I thought you might be asleep.
- Ordell Robbie: You keep fuckin' with me, you the one gonna be asleep. Forever.
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- Ordell Robbie: Fuck's wrong with you, knockin' on the door like the goddamned police?
- Ordell Robbie: You lookin' to get shot?
- Max Cherry: I thought you might be asleep.
- Ordell Robbie: You keep fuckin' with me, you the one gonna be asleep. Forever.
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- Ordell Robbie: Fuck's wrong with you, knockin' on the door like the goddamned police?
- Ordell Robbie: You lookin' to get shot?
- Max Cherry: I thought you might be asleep.
- Ordell Robbie: You keep fuckin' with me, you the one gonna be asleep. Forever.
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- Ordell Robbie: What the fuck happened to you, man? Shit, your ass used to be beautiful!
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- Melanie: Anyway, I keep that picture because, of all the fucking time I was there, thats the only picture I?ve got of me in Japan...
- Louis Gara: Thats Japan. Oh. Yeah...Well... Yeah, I can... Yeah, it looks. I could tell...
- Melanie: Wanna fuck?
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