Jackie Brown
1997 Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Synopsis
Six players on the trail of a half a million in Cash. There's only one question... Who's playing who?
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan—with help from a bail bondsman—to keep the money for herself. Based on Elmore Leonard's novel "Rum Punch."
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The Tragedy Of Jackie Brown: Tarantino directs a nuanced, nostalgic masterpiece about romance, aging and responsibility.
Audience disappointed by lack of Hitmen discussing cheeseburgers.
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Even though it had been around 15 years since I'd seen Jackie Brown, for some reason my overriding memory of it was that Pam Grier wasn't very good in it.
After watching it again today, I'm left wondering if I must have been thinking of a different film. The only thing is that I'm not sure if I have even seen another Pam Grier film. Clearly I was incredibly mistaken because not only is she far better in this than I seemed to remember, she is actually absolutely great in this. So much so that I can hardly imagine that she has ever been better.
Almost everyone in Jackie Brown, however, turns in a performance that has to be at…
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Half a million dollars will always be missed.
Well I’ll be damned.
Although this is only my 4th Tarantino film I've seen, I can safely say I wasn't expecting something quite so relaxed. However, it being a Tarantino film, I did expect fantastic dialogue and character interaction, as well as a brilliant story, and Quentin delivered on all accounts.
I can’t pin-point Mr. Tarantino’s style, but I have noticed some consistency through his work. For one, his score is almost always comprised of pre-recorded music that perfectly plays off the tonality of the film. Hardly ever (if at all) do I remember a Tarantino film with a score that was composed for the film. That particular element reminds me a…
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When I logged this film here a while back, I rated it from memory and gave it two stars. I only remembered really not liking it. And while my appreciation of it certainly changed with this rewatch, I still think it is one of Tarantino's weakest films.
What changed then? Well, I did of course. When I first saw it I kept looking for a Reservoir Dog or a Pulp Fiction. I didn't get that and that was a bit too much for my 22 year old brain to process. Now, just a teeny tiny bit wiser I can judge this film on its own merits and flaws.
There isn't a whole lot wrong with this film actually. The performances…
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Another bit of proof detailing that Quentin Tarantino is the most important director of my lifetime.
In my opinion, Jackie Brown contains some of the best performances of any Tarantino movie. Pam Grier had a career renaissance here, and she does wonderfully. Robert Forster is also quite good, as is Sam Jackson, but I've always gotten the most enjoyment from Bridget Fonda's stoned beach bunny and a very low key Robert De Niro as the wayward ex-con trying to get back into society. Everyone is brilliant. They all want to act their heart out for Tarantino. That's one of many reasons that make his films stand out.
It really is a shame that this has somehow become one of Tarantino's least valued and under appreciated works. I don't understand why. Perhaps as it isn't a Tarantino original story? Who knows, but in my book, it could well be Tarantino's one true masterpiece.
The soundtrack however, IS Tarantino's best.
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There's a strange cult of people who claim Jackie Brown to be Quentin Tarantino's finest film. They're a strange group I always viewed with perplexity; I like the movie very much, but the idea that it trumps the manic fun of Pulp Fiction or twisty thrills of Reservoir Dogs always boggled my mind a little. As the credits rolled on my latest watch, I found my eyebrows had become less pointed as I stared at this group, and the position from which I viewed them had changed... to within them. It is Tarantino's best film, and here's why: for the first time in his three narratives to date, I really give a shit about his characters. Not in a "Oh…
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I still love this movie and it just has ana amazing cast and is a great movie but out QT movies i think this is his weakest one and find that because this is based on something but rather not something original he would write about. I wished some of the cast got more screen time and Sam Jackson as the lead is just amazing and Deniro as a stoner is great. A great movie with some weakness.
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I may have to redo my Tarantino list.
One of the many things that people take for granted in Quentin Tarantino's work is his patience. He isn't afraid to show what his characters do outside of the "movie" stuff around them. Listen to old soul and country records, shoot the shit, but in "Jackie Brown," he shows them doing something even more audacious: thinking. We see these characters going over what their next plan of action is, which makes sense given the high stakes involved in ripping off the gun-runner Odelle, played with a post-fusion Miles Davis haircut and effortless menace by Samuel L. Jackson, and in the case of the great Pam Grier as the title character and the…
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Jackie Brown has easily one of the best soundtracks of any Tarantino movie. Pair this with Pam Grier being a bad-ass and you've got yourself one hell of an enjoyable film.
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Roger Ebert once wrote: "You savor every moment of Jackie Brown. Those who say it is too long have developed cinematic attention deficit disorder."
I completely disagree. If I have that disorder why is that movies like The Godfather II or Magnolia have my complete attention the whole running time and they are half an hour longer? So why did Jackie Brown lost me somewhere between the second hour?
Some people have said overlength is Tarantino´s main problem. But I dont think it is at all. Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained are relatively long but you feel entertained enough not to notice. In Jackie Brown, however, I did notice.
Fortunately the last 30 minutes came to save the film, with…
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since i had not seen Jackie Brown since 1997, i mostly felt like i was watching it for the first time here. like many folks Pulp Fiction blew me away and expectations for Jackie Brown in 97 were way out of control. my dopey 21 year old self didn't know what to think of it then.
in 2013 it's absolutely fascinating. Tarantino's least flashy, most subdued film in my opinion and he's not shoving film references in your face. it's a brilliantly acted, straight forward & really character driven ode to 1970s cinema in general that demands the viewer pay attention to every second.
were Tarantino to put this out today, i think people would say it his best film and he has "matured".
Tarantino movies for me somehow are always different on a second viewing and it's too bad it took me 16 years to look at this underrated gem once again. -
Half a million dollars will always be missed.
Well I’ll be damned.
Although this is only my 4th Tarantino film I've seen, I can safely say I wasn't expecting something quite so relaxed. However, it being a Tarantino film, I did expect fantastic dialogue and character interaction, as well as a brilliant story, and Quentin delivered on all accounts.
I can’t pin-point Mr. Tarantino’s style, but I have noticed some consistency through his work. For one, his score is almost always comprised of pre-recorded music that perfectly plays off the tonality of the film. Hardly ever (if at all) do I remember a Tarantino film with a score that was composed for the film. That particular element reminds me a…
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Even though it had been around 15 years since I'd seen Jackie Brown, for some reason my overriding memory of it was that Pam Grier wasn't very good in it.
After watching it again today, I'm left wondering if I must have been thinking of a different film. The only thing is that I'm not sure if I have even seen another Pam Grier film. Clearly I was incredibly mistaken because not only is she far better in this than I seemed to remember, she is actually absolutely great in this. So much so that I can hardly imagine that she has ever been better.
Almost everyone in Jackie Brown, however, turns in a performance that has to be at…
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As always with a QT film, this is one hell of a well directed sonofabitch!
The only problem I have with this one is that it tends to be a little slow paced at times.
But the performances, the dialogue, the style (oh, the style!)... QT, you the MAN! -
This is yet another fantastic film from Tarantino, it keeps you in suspense for most of the film. Everything about this is enjoyable.