Jackie Brown

Jackie Brown is a 44 year old air hostess who also acts as a money carrier for her boss, gun dealer Ordell Robbie. When one of Ordell's other employee's is caught he is forced to kill him, however, before he... Read more at imdb.com

When I first heard the name of Q's next movie, Jackie Brown, I figured this would be a remake of a 70's Pam Grier blaxploitation flick (i.e- Foxy Brown). I quickly learned that this was actually an ode to the... Read more at imdb.com

JACKIE BROWN (1997) ***1/2 Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Chris Tucker, Tiny Lister. A marriage made in heaven: Elmore Leonard and Quentin Tarantino. Excellent adaptation of Leonard's `Rum Punch' with Grier... Read more at imdb.com

Many people were disappointed with 'Jackie Brown' when it was first released as it didn't live up to their expectations created by the more flamboyant 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction'. I admit that I was one of those disappointed fans.... Read more at imdb.com

Being a huge fan of Tarantinos earlier efforts Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction expectations were of course high. Especially since Jackie Brown is based on the Elmore Leonard novel "Rum Punch". And Elmore Leonards stories usually fit the big screen... Read more at imdb.com

Where does a director go after making two colossal worldwide hits?"Reservoir Dogs" (1992) and "Pulp Fiction" (1994) were two of the greatest movies ever made, and they launched director Quentin Tarantino into the realm of Mainstream Hollywood Director. Most of... Read more at imdb.com

Quentin Tarantino is clearly finding it difficult to follow the phenomenal success of "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction", which made him the hottest writer-director of his generation. In the six years since then this is the only time that he... Read more at imdb.com

Quentin Tarantino follow up to the hysterical response generated by his suitably hysterical first two movies was 'Jackie Brown', an altogether more restrained film that garnered a somewhat more restrained set of reviews. Perhaps the relative lack of impact made... Read more at imdb.com

Contrary to Pulp Fiction which had a very unusual editing and flashy situations, Jackie Brown focuses more on characters that are basically humans with very focused problems, for instance getting older which is an eminent theme tackled in the film.... Read more at imdb.com

Although different than some of Tarantino's more violent precursors, such as "Reservoir Dogs", "Pulp Fiction" and "True Romance" this is an excellent film. Where it lacks in violence however, the film makes up for in language earning it an "R"... Read more at imdb.com

Like Leonard, he has a gift for great-sounding dialogue, but he saturates Jackie Brown with it, and there's not enough plot to keep us interested. Two years later, I still regard it as a masterpiece and would still call it the movie of the '90s on a technical level, but I believe now that Jackie Brown is Tarantino's greatest and most accomplished film. ... Full Review

At more than 2 1/2 hours, Jackie Brown could probably have been shorter and entertained nearly as much, but Tarantino lets his characters develop at their leisure. Jackie and Max are the film's central characters, and Tarantino (who wrote the screenplay as well as directed) handles them in a surprisingly tender and melancholy way. ... Full Review

Jackie Brown is a collection of great characters interacting in a first-rate 'detective fiction' kind of yarn. Robert Forster is extremely sympathetic as a bail bondsman with ethics, who trusts Jackie out of love. Grier is terrific in the film. ... Full Review

It should, more importantly, please anyone appreciative of an assured, accomplished, and very good film. Jackie Brown will probably alienate the fans who latched onto the more immediate pleasures of Tarantino's past workthe giddily staged violence and the funny pop-culture talkand that's just as well. ... Full Review

Jackie Brown is also markedly less violent than its predecessors. Shortly afterwards Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) who smuggles money for Ordell to supplement her stewardess' income is caught with $50,000 and a stash of cocaine at LA airport. ... Full Review

Quentin Tarantino once described Jackie Brown as a "hang-out movie": Plot aside, viewers enjoy the film for the chance to spend time with its characters. The first episode of the new Strong Bad game series has the same hook. While ... Full Article

What must Robert "Jackie Brown" Forster's contract have looked like?"Duties limited to exposition, exposition, occasional morphing into ancient martial arts wizard, doctors and soccer moms, and more exposition." ... Full Article