This DVD is great! Not only does it contain a great movie but the special features are some of the most in depth and informative I have ever seen. We all already know what a gifted writer/director QT is and I think that this is one of his best works (next to Pulp Fiction of course) and that it has quickly become a worthy cult classic.

I bought this for my son last year and he said that it is a really good movie!!

I'll start with the soundtrack. Some movies are very much influenced and remembered for the soundtrack. Such examples of that would certainly be `Jaws' & `Psycho'. Background music is important, or lack there of, as is the case in the 2007 hit `No Country For Old Men', and so we tend to pay attention to it. In the case of Jackie Brown, the influence of the 70's musical touch creates a setting that compels us to maintain our focus, more so than with your run-of-the-mill movie. The music hooks us from the opening credits and never stops.

The acting in Jackie Brown is fantastic. There isn't a character in this movie that you don't believe or buy into. Samuel Jackson stunned me with his powerful performance and Robert De Niro has mastered the bit of a dim-witted, always high, ex-con. Together they dominate the screen with their plans to become successful gun dealers during the 80's.

What Quentin Tarantino does better than any other director, is he assembles a cast of actors who are able to portray characters which force the audience to both love and hate them at the same time. It doesn't matter whether the character is supposed to be good or evil, at some point during the movie; you're going to think of that character as both or either. You'll find yourself getting disgusted with the character and then laughing at or with them, sometimes in the same scene.

Perhaps the greatest aspect of Tarantino's movies is that of the dialogue. Sure his movies are graphic and filled with more twists than a gun barrel, but what makes them click, and none better than Jackie Brown, is the dialogue. The characters give it to you hard and fast and you believe them. While Pulp Fiction & the Kill Bill movies gained the most recognition, Jackie Brown is his sleeper masterpiece that puts them all to shame when it comes to the script. If there was an academy award category for dialogue - Jackie Brown would be a runaway nominee.

Jackie Brown is one of those movies that you don't need to put together, or try to figure out what is going on. That is a step away from what we have come to associate Tarantino with, but it works perfectly with Jackie Brown. We're allowed to simply sit back, watch, listen and enjoy a bunch of shady characters as they try to swindle and kill each other off - all in the name of the almighty dollar.

Jackie Brown is a thrilling ride and certainly one that you will enjoy watching more than once.

I'm dumbfounded that there are negative reviews of this. I do not see how you could not like it. Maybe the negatives come from those who are looking for another "Pulp Fiction." I thought "Pulp Fiction" was one of the best things I had ever seen, but it will never be duplicated. In some ways, "Jackie Brown" is a better movie. PF was more about action and shocking weirdness, whereas in JB, you actually care about the two main characters, played by Pam Grier, who looks great, and Robert Forster, in the role of a lifetime. This movie has everything.

If you were to take this film, and compare it to Tarantino's earlier work, you'd never guess they came from the same director and yes baby he did a great job with "Jackie." This is one of those films which is strange but yet captivating. You'll definitely feel as though you are watching a "Blaxploitation" flick to the point that you'll be wondering what corner Richard Roundtree was hiding behind.

Tarantino slows down a little and shows his skill at plotting an entertaining tale that doesn't tax your patience. In here, you do get less blood and more characterizations than usual and is unlike either of his first 2 movies. In Jackie Brown, Tarantino takes us for a ride as we follow Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), a flight attendant helping an arms dealer named Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson) get money where it needs to be. After a flight, she is pull aside by two cops, one being Ray Nicolet (Michael Keaton), who find the cash she is smuggling in for Ordell. Now she faces jail time and Ordell must get rid of somebody who might snitch. What happens now is the bail bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster) and Brown team up to mess with Ordell and his two pot smoking companions, Melanie (Bridget Fonda) and Louis Gara (Robert De Niro). Now it's a nice plot of how Ordell wants the half a million dollars he has coming to him with these arms deals and how Jackie Brown is the only connection between Ordell and the police and Cherry.

This movie received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Robert Forster) and many good reviews. Forster isn't the only one giving a great performance. De Niro, Fonda, Jackson, Grier, Keaton, even Chris Tucker who is in the movie for probably less than five or ten minutes gives a notable performance. The whole ensemble is incredibly well casted and deserves to be recognized.

However, this movie is uniquely Quentin T. and exhibits his versatile film making style. When he directs he allows his imagination free rein to experiment and explore. Each of his directorial efforts has been unique, and "Jackie Brown" is another successful experiment. This movie does have great dialogue. Not surprising considering this WAS an Elmore Leonard book with Tarantino doing the scripting. Both men have quite a talent for what they do. It is also clear that Tarantino loves what he does, sometimes a little too much.

I have the soundtrack and just loved it. If you own it you will see how great the songs fit in and the dialogue. Loved the scene when they're all going to the mall at the end, and DeNiro's car is playing "Midnight Confession," and Forster's car is playing the Delfonics, "Didn't I Blow Your Mind" (a song that desperately needed re-discovery, thank you Quentin), and Jackie's car is playing "Street life!" and when Robert Forster first meets Jackie as he's bailing her out and "Natural High" comes on!!!!. Yes, QT is BRILLIANT when it comes to the use of music in his films and soundtracks. At the end of this, all the adventures and bizarre paths taken by these characters converge into a great film. What more can I say but to highly recommended this film along with the soundtrack.

Jackie Brown is a fantastic film. Coming off the helm of two masterpieces (Reservoir Dogs (15th Anniversary) and Pulp Fiction (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)), it was difficult to live up to the hype.

Well Jackie Brown found a way to do it. Featuring many of the qualities found in Tarantino's first two films, Jackie Brown includes a rock solid cast, witty dialogue, and a wonderful plot. Pam Grier plays the title character.

The two disc set includes deleted scenes, plenty of Tarantino featurettes, a "Chicks with Guns" video, Siskel and Ebert at the movies feature, Pam Grier features, trailers, and DVD-ROM features.

HIghly, higly recommended.

Jackie Brown is a nice, slowly paced film about love and redemption. Quentin Tarantino makes us fall in love with all the characters, good or bad ones. His use of music is right on, and the dialogue is tip-top. Every director has at least one film that is terribly underrated, Tarantino's is Jackie Brown. The DVD however, is also very cool. It includes loads of special features and nice little posters. I hope you enjoy it!

I am not a great fan of Pam Grier, but in this role and with Robert Foster she does a splendid job, Bridget Fonda and Samuel Jackson are great and poor Robert de Niro is left with a miserly role, that is hard to handle, still I loved the movie and watch it over and again every so often.

Quentin Tarantino pays homage to the blackploitation era of the 70's in this film based on Elmore Leonard's novel, "Rum Punch". Unlike the book, the film's lead character is black, not white. That change actually enhances the movie, making it more authentic. Pam Grier gives a Oscar worthy performance as the flight attendant hooked into a dangerous plot. Robert Forester gives one of his best performances of his career as bail bondsman, Max Cherry. Couple that with an all-star cast featuring Robert DeNiro, Michael Keaton, Bridget Fonda and Samuel L. Jackson. But what makes this film shine is the music. Fans of late 70's soul music will be asking for the soundtrack. Though a notch below Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, Tarantino's "Jackie Brown" still delivers the goods! Very Good Film!

Samuel Jackson has never been better than he is in this film. Ordell is a character he was made to play (and maybe Tarantino wrote it with him in mind). He delivers some priceless lines, perhaps most perceptive of which is: "AK-47. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherf***er in the room, accept no substitutes." You will have gathered from this that there is a comedy element in this film and it combines nicely with Tarantinos trademark dialogue and action sequences. Pam Grier is equally good as the flight attendent who gets caught smuggling gun money, and Robert DeNiro is a very laid back side-kick to Ordell.

Tarantino puts in a marvellous set-piece in the middle of the film which you see from a number of characters perspectives. I've never seen this done in a film anywhere. No doubt he got the idea from somebodyelse, but hey nothing is entirely original these days.

This will keep you well entertained and the extras on disc 2 are pretty good. They include: a documentary, an interview with Tarantino, deleted and alternate takes as well as the complete 'Chicks with Guns video' alluded to above!

This pitch-perfect adaptation of Elmore Leonard's "Rum Punch" delivers the goods--and then some. With its cheeky dialogue, blasts of violence, and an eccentric gallery of characters, "Jackie Brown" exemplifies the kind of robust, genuinely thrilling material a Tarantino-Leonard match-up can produce. Grier and Jackson make excellent, illicit adversaries, and the supporting cast, including De Niro as Ordell's pothead partner and Fonda as a sun-kissed stoner babe, couldn't be better. The other triumph of "Jackie Brown" belongs to Forster, a forgotten actor (like Grier) whose turn as Jackie's regular-guy love interest earned him an Oscar nod.

Great little movie. Not as nasty as "Reservoir Dogs" or as funny as "Get Shorty," but has its own charms. If you're a Tarantino fan, you need to see this one. It's an example of what a great director and talented actors can do with a "quiet" movie (very few gun battles and car chases).

I feel in love with Pam Grier the moment I saw this DVD.

This is an exciting movie with an all time great cast. The cast is so good that DeNiro has a relatively minor role. Pam Grier is excellent as a mature woman desperately trying to make some kind of a career last, no matter how limited, while running money for a gun dealer, played by Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson is terrific, as a manic yet terrifying killer whose ambition is to make lots of money no matter what the price for any associates. Literally under the gun from both sides with the police (played by Keaton and Michael Brown) with Jackson puttimg pressure from the other side, Grier plays a smart, wiley and sympathetic woman who plans to not only survive but take a desperate attempt at financial freedom. Robert Forster, plays her empathetic bondsman and potential love interst, if not friend, who knows the criminal justice system and virtually acts as her mentor and consultant. The interplay between Forster and Grier play off extremley well against the fearsome street smart Jackson. Tarentno's style of moving abruptly to scene to scene livens the drama as you see the key part of the film from different dramatic clips. The final builds up in dramatic tension and suddenly grows calm as the ending virtually crashes in a burst. Very well done and Pam Grier looks terrific and sexy even in her movie charcter's mid life crisis. An ultimate classic.

I love Tarantino's style, which is powered as much by mood as by story line. I have viewed this film at least a dozen times now, and it has made me laugh and feel anxious with every single viewing. In this film, rather than violence for its own sake or a strangely parallel universe of plausible if impossible crime, you get really good characters in an unusual situation.

There is Jackie, the seemingly normal woman at the center of the film who turns out to be as cool as a cumcumber and a superb manipulator. She is wonderfully subtle in her desperation, as much financial as middle aged and not wanting to start over again. Then there is Max, a burntout bail bondsman who chooses to help her because he loves her in a very mature and low-key way. With Ordell, you get a great foul-mouthed bad guy, with hilarious dialogue, dim wits, and style. He moves things along with his menacing presence, greed, and alcoholic rage. His hangers-on are also splendidly eccentric and dumb. Finally, there are the young cops who are enjoying "playing the cop", as Cherry puts it. This mix offers a uniquely balanced chemistry of characters that are not in the slightest sterotypical, but quirky and entirely believable.

The greatest thing that Tarantino did was to cast Grier and Forster, two has-beens who give remarkable performances even though they are not young anymore. They are so good that they eclipse the wonderful work of the others, which is also first rate. Again, they capture the mood of the time, and their age anxieties, extremely well. The drama is mature, not the usual bust-em-up adolescent fare. This is so rare.

FInally, there is the wonderfully intricate plot. Here, the details really matter, and you can view the film many times to piece Jackie's entire plan together in its wonderful and very dangerous orchestration. While some reviewers say it feels too static, I found the tension subtle and far more convincing than anything else that Tarantno has done - never outlandish, but taut. In this, he tells a story that could really happen, right down to the ambiguous ending.

This is by far my favorite Tarantino film and one of the best I have ever seen, a genuine master[iece. It is unlike any other film noir you will ever find, because of the fine work of Grier and Forester. You will not get a formula here, but a solid drama that is very scary and very funny. Just when you think Hollywood cannot produce talent, someone like Tarrantino comes along.

Warmly recommended.

Quentin goes a different route with this fun film, a mystery that builds constantly before the crime is even committed. It's based on the book "Rum Punch" by Elmore Leonard.
Basically, the movie revolves around Jackie(Pam Grier), an airline stewardess, trying to smuggle in a half million in cash. Lots of people are interested in this delivery, both feds, hustlers, and a bail bondsman. There are scams stacked on top of scams, it's so exciting to see how it all unfolds.
Samuel Jackson has got cool down pat. Here he plays a street-smart gun runner, Ordell Robbie. He's a dangerous man to try to double cross. This character dominates every scene he is in, just like he did as Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction. I hope Samuel and Quentin team up again in the near future, they are awesome together!
This plot has a very linear structure, which is rare for a Tarantino film. It still has his brilliant dialogue, superb but toned down action scenes, edgy humor, and great soundtrack. It's his most underrated work, a must own!

I really give this movie alot of credit and kudos as to how this was presented. Jackie Brown a poor African American woman trying to survive with what she had and make a little money on the side. When the feds to bust her, she is strong and brilliant in her presentation to the feds and the one that she is "carrying" for. Along the way, she falls in love with the bail bondsmen. The story does take alot of twists and turns as to who is going to make it out "on top". I recommend this movie to all QT fans and also those that like twists and turns in movies.

Samuel Jackson has never been better than he is in this film. Ordell is a character he was made to play (and maybe Tarantino wrote it with him in mind). He delivers some priceless lines, perhaps most perceptive of which is: "AK-47. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherf***er in the room, accept no substitutes." You will have gathered from this that there is a comedy element in this film and it combines nicely with Tarantinos trademark dialogue and action sequences. Pam Grier is equally good as the flight attendent who gets caught smuggling gun money, and Robert DeNiro is a very laid back side-kick to Ordell.

Tarantino puts in a marvellous set-piece in the middle of the film which you see from a number of characters perspectives. I've never seen this done in a film anywhere. No doubt he got the idea from somebodyelse, but hey nothing is entirely original these days.

This will keep you well entertained and the extras on disc 2 are pretty good. They include: a documentary, an interview with Tarantino, deleted and alternate takes as well as the complete 'Chicks with Guns video' alluded to above!

A great movie made from the story of a great book. I love how Q.T. adds so much of the 70's feel to this movie. Especially the lead actress Pam Grier. The story made sure all the characters played an important part to the outcome of this movie. People of all ages will enjoy this one. "That suit looks really cool" "Yeah and it looks cool on me"

Director Quentin Tarentino added his deft touch to nicely placed wry humor, combined that with an all-star cast (including Samuel L. Jackson, Pam Grier and Robert De Niro) and delivered the action-crime caper Jackie Brown. Jackie is a flight attendant who smuggles cash on the side. When busted and pressured to help with an investigation, she plans to play the opposing forces against each other and walk away with the dough.
I loved Tarentino's other work but I feel that Jackie Brown has the most style. It's the coolest because it's about a women getting justice without getting out the guns and it's also funny, Michael Keaton steals the show for me. But what I think I like the best is the understated romance of the Forrester and Brown and the dialogue that just flows so freely like your ease dropping on a private moment. Tarentino is known for his characters having everyday conversations about banal things and this movie really hits all the rights notes with those conversations. Of course he aided by Leonard's book `Rum Punch'. Again it is violent though less so than his earlier but again the violence has a style that some how seem to become humorous while being totally horrific. I think the reason I like it is because out of all his films it is the most restrained and least flashy while oozing so much cool you could make ice cream

If you were to take this film, and compare it to Tarantino's earlier work, you'd never guess they came from the same director and yes baby he did a great job with "Jackie." This is one of those films which is strange but yet captivating. You'll definitely feel as though you are watching a "Blaxploitation" flick to the point that you'll be wondering what corner Richard Roundtree was hiding behind.

Tarantino slows down a little and shows his skill at plotting an entertaining tale that doesn't tax your patience. In here, you do get less blood and more characterizations than usual and is unlike either of his first 2 movies. In Jackie Brown, Tarantino takes us for a ride as we follow Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), a flight attendant helping an arms dealer named Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson) get money where it needs to be. After a flight, she is pull aside by two cops, one being Ray Nicolet (Michael Keaton), who find the cash she is smuggling in for Ordell. Now she faces jail time and Ordell must get rid of somebody who might snitch. What happens now is the bail bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster) and Brown team up to mess with Ordell and his two pot smoking companions, Melanie (Bridget Fonda) and Louis Gara (Robert De Niro). Now it's a nice plot of how Ordell wants the half a million dollars he has coming to him with these arms deals and how Jackie Brown is the only connection between Ordell and the police and Cherry.

This movie received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor (Robert Forster) and many good reviews. Forster isn't the only one giving a great performance. De Niro, Fonda, Jackson, Grier, Keaton, even Chris Tucker who is in the movie for probably less than five or ten minutes gives a notable performance. The whole ensemble is incredibly well casted and deserves to be recognized.

However, this movie is uniquely Quentin T. and exhibits his versatile film making style. When he directs he allows his imagination free rein to experiment and explore. Each of his directorial efforts has been unique, and "Jackie Brown" is another successful experiment. This movie does have a very good dialogue. Not surprising considering this WAS an Elmore Leonard book with Tarantino doing the scripting. Both men have quite a talent for what they do. It is also clear that Tarantino loves what he does, sometimes a little too much.

I have the soundtrack and just loved it. If you own it you will see how great the songs fit in and the dialogue. Loved the scene when they're all going to the mall at the end, and DiNiro's car is playing "Midnight Confession," and Forster's car is playing the Delfonics, "Didn't I Blow Your Mind" (a song that desperately needed re-discovery, thank you Quentin), and Jackie's car is playing "Street life!" and when Robert Forster first meets Jackie as he's bailing her out and "Natural High" comes on!!!!. Yes, QT is BRILLIANT when it comes to the use of music in his films and soundtracks. At the end of this, all the adventures and bizarre paths taken by these characters converge into a great film. What more can I say but to highly recommended this film along with the soundtrack.

This is attention-grabbing from the beginning to the end and the acting superb! There is a plot that no one will NOT pay attention to. Quintin T. is a great director and I love Pam G.

I'm really into blaxploitation films and I have seen most of Pam Grier's movies from the 1970s. "Jackie Brown" brought Grier back into the spotlight and has to be one of her best roles to date. This was a modern blaxploitation flim, which paid homage to 1970s blaxploitation flicks as well as to Pam Grier. There were a few references to Grier in "Jackie Brown." The song "Long Time Woman" played in the scene when Jackie was in jail was actually performed by Grier for the movie she starred in called "Black Mama, White Mama" (1972). In the scene where Jackie and Max Cherry were talking about growing old, he noted she probably looks the same she did back then except she had an Afro I did not find this movie "disappointing." There was not a lot of rash bloodshed, but mostly a lot of dialogue that included scheming. If you wanted to know what was going on the movie, you had to have paid attention to what the characters were saying, which led to their actions. Jackie Brown and Max Cherry were two characters I found to be "real" enough to relate to and the chemistry between them was great. Samuel L. Jackson gave an awesome performance (as usual) and the beginning of the movie with him and Chris Tucker was hilarious. The soundtrack was definitely of the hook- "Inside Me Love" by Minnie Riperton; "Strawberry Letter 23" by The Brothers Johnson; "Natural High" by Bloodstone, and you can't forget The Delfonics! This was a great movie!

Jackie Brown (Grier) is a sexy stewardess trying to make something good (how about a half-million bucks!) out of something terrible (getting busted for possession). I know it sounds confusing, but it's really quite fun. I was pleasantly suprised the first time I viewed it and each time after that.

I have never been a huge fan of Mr. Tarantino's films. However, this happens to be one of my favorite films period! It is the only film by QT that I own on DVD and I have probably seen the film at least ten times now. Pam Grier is everything you want in a leading lady - sexy, sassy, strong, sophisticated, smart, etc... I could not imagine anyone else playing the role of Jackie. Samuel L. Jackson is absolutely hilarious throughout as the film's villian, and this is one of his best performances. There is a scene between he and Chris Tucker (in a cameo role) that is so funny it brings me to tears everytime I view it. Deniro is also great as SLJ's neer-do-well right hand man (then again, when isn't he great?). Bridget Fonda who usually stinks up the screen is a hoot as SLJ's stoner surfer girlfriend. The whole cast is terrific! However, it's the likeable, understated performance of Robert Forster as bailbondsman Max Cherry that shines above all the other great performances. He really makes you feel for his character and it's almost impossible to not like him. It was nice to see the Academy acknowledge his performance with an Oscar nomination for his supporting role (he should have won though!).

Overall, the film is excellent. I also appreciated the fact that the movie did not have as much graphic violence as the majority of QT's films. There is however a whole lot of f-bombs throughout, and the use of the "N" word more times than you can count. However, that being said, the writing overall is excellent and so to is the directing. I also enjoyed the great 70's music!

I love this Movie ...it's in my top Ten films of the Nineties ...The Dialogue is incredible ..Sam Jackson ..Chris Tucker ..Pam Grier ...Bridget Fonda,Bob Deniro Robert Forster and Michael Keaton..the scene where Sam Jackson is trying to talk Tucker into getting into the trunk of the car is absolute Classic ..this movie ages like fine wine ..

amazing, this mobie is excellent, pam grier and samuel l. jackson are great actors and the 2nd disc is full bonus. you must to bought this (sorry. My english isn't very good)

TERRIBLE!!! I can't believe Tarantino is capable of such garbage. Nothing happens!!! It's like 2.5 hrs long and nothing happens. Is that even possible? Brutally boring. How does anyone rate this movie highly? Maybe it's a movie where you have to be a book nerd who liked the transation to film? All I know is NOTHING HAPPENS! Q: What is the plot? A. Who knows. If someone asks me what this movie was about - I say 'It's about NOTHING'. And not in a good Seinfeld way. Sad really. I think Tarantino tried to make a cool movie. But along the way he forgot that a movie needs to tell a story. This movie is like watching a slideshow - and who the hell needs that?

The is a great movie based on the novel "Rum Punch" who's main character is a caucasian stewardess working for an arms and drug dealer. She transfers funds from the U.S. to Mexico. Quentin Tarantino's homage to the blaxplotation films of the 70's is his vision here casting noone other than the Queen herself Pam Grier in the title role. The movie's dialogue is key here, there is no big action and no big surprises just great performances by the cast and to cheer on the heroine of the film no other. Smart, Funny, and music by " THE DELFONICS". U DIG!

That is coming from someone who love anything this director makes, presents, or endorses. I think this is a very complex and satisfying film. Using the relatively unfilmed cities of LA, such as Hawthorne, Compton, the REAL Hollywood, it utilizes a more down to earth approach to real world crime. This isn't about a multimillion dollar heist, and the criminals are likeable and genuinely interesting even if one or two are full of themselves (Namely Ordell and Melanie.) The film opens with the classic Across 110th Street as sung by Bobby Womack and featuring a strong Pam Grier, walking that moving sidewalk at LAX. As the opening progresses she ends up possessing a look of worry on her face that shows a VERY strong woman's strength become vulnerablity. From then on we meet a handful of excentric baddies and law enforcers, that are all likeable, interesting and have at least one or two funny lines (with the exception of the cop who isn't Michael Keaton, who is just a plain jackass cowboy cop) My favorite part is the friendship/romance between Pam and the subtle and sensational Robert Forster. Starting with a very special ride home, which bleeds to a bar, and then to Griers Apartment. All involve rich dialogue and interest shown. They bond thru body language, their age, and eventually music("The Del----Fonics".) The fact that Forster rushes to the nearest record store for his first Delfonics Tape is just plain cute, and shows he is falling for her music and all. The Scenes between Grier and Sam Jackson also need recognition. They are at times funny, terrifying, and very well acted. There is also Robert DiNiro as an old friend/partner to Jackson, and a few girlfriends of ordell's such as Surfer Girl/PotHead Melanie, Old sex siren Simone, and Super Slow Country Girl Sheronda. There is just a bunch of rich characters here, and they all give great parts no matter how big or how small...especially Chris Tucker, who's performance as a snitch is equal parts brilliant and hilarious. This movie just hits a right note for anyone interested in a talky, rich picture. Tarantino says this is a movie for older people, well at 19, I'm definitely not younger, but this is my favorite of all tarantino films, be it because of the great soundtrack, storyline, performances, direction it makes no difference. It's my favorite period. Give it a chance and you'll see what I see...Great Movie!

I watched the first 15 minutes of movie. Thanks quarantino, I bought this for 20 bucks, I won't recover my money if I want to sell it. I want my money back now. Nobody will buy this vomit. All quarantino's movies suck.
Do me a favor Quentin: change your profession to a cleaner or something like that... You may do it better.
PS: the only star is because Amazon doesn't give me other choice. I would give this movie "-5"

Tarantino,Director- Samuel L Jackson, Robert De Niro, Actors- What a combination.
Great movie keeping one interested throughout.
If you like Tarintino movies, it is a must, you will not be disappointed.

How can you not love Pam Grier? The old school 1970s Foxy Brown and Coffy movies have nothing on this new film, which shares a bit of comedy in the line. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Robert DeNiro, and much more, by bringing this movie in your home, it fits right along with Pulp Fiction, Dead Presidents and Spike Lee's Malcolm X.

Ok... 200 reviews for this movie. Yeah.. Tarantino is good; Elmore Leonard is great.

But Jackie Brown is stolen. It belongs to Grier and Forrestor. I have no doubt Tarantino did an excellent job directing. But this is not his film and it is NOT a follow up to Pulp Fiction! Grier as Jackie Brown does her thing... and Tarantino nor S.L. Jackson can steal her fire. Jackie is like screen burn. This is her movie...

And then surprisingly, out of nowhere comes Forrestor as Max Cherry, hard-boiled but with a bald spot and no hipster quality whatsover. This contrasts well with S.L. Jackson's almost freaky soul brutha Halloween costume. Max is tough, dealing with bail jumpers. But he looks like a regular shmo, a quality enforced immediately when he meets Jackie, who, as you will see, is not looking her best.

Jackie stands out as one of the most dynamic characters I've seen in a movie, and it's a shame she got no props for it. She switches from polite to tough, desperate to determined, white-polite to jive-alive, serious to seductive; all of this in the bat of an eyelash.

She is cool as cool--booyah!--and sexy as sexy. Halle Berry can go swing on the monkey bars. Most of us youngsters have not seen this in an actress. No this does not remind me of Foxie Brown. It reminds me more of the reaction Rita Hayworth gets in Shawshank Redemption when she appears and flips up her hair. Everyone cheers.

Music--I think Tarantino deserves cred here--adds quite a bit to the emotion of the characters. In this movie, you get a course in SOUL 101 but also in how music can create the mood and let the actor play off it.

A good summary of this chemical reaction is how it hits Max while driving back to work. He pops in a tape of the Delphonics, a somewhat obscure Philly soul band. His excitement mirrors ours.
Earlier, he watched Jackie light a smoke and play an LP of the same band after a stint in prison. She sways with relief, not overtly seductive, but with enthusiasm that seems missing in Cherry's and many of our lives.

I hate to call this film underrated because then it puts it in a competition with Tarantino movies and I suppose Leonard adaptations. We should look at it through a different lens. Which leads me to the spoiler.......
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I want to give respect to Tarantino or Pam and Forrestor or whoever for the last scene in which Max and Jackie kiss. Normally-- THANK YOU HOLLYWOOD--a black woman kissing a white man intimately would be awkward. Passionate, crazy is ok. But intimate no. Gotta go out on a date at the end of the movie.
The kissing scene at the end is completely natural and that says something. What does it say? I suppose, me being part of an interracial couple, it shows that we aren't used to seeing this on screen. Or else director, actor, actress are damn good? I dunno!

Gabriel Elias

It may be old news now, but Quentin T. showed out in this fast and sassy maxi-scam caper flick. He couldn't have hired a better acting ensemble to pull this off, to whit, Pam Grier, Robert Forster, Sammy J., Bobby D., Brigid F., Chris Tucker, Michael K., etc.

For starters, I think this is the best performance of Pam G's career: she exhibits a multi-dimensional personna here I have never seen her pull off before. Notice how she effortlessly segues from the street-savvy demeanor whilst in the company of Sammy J., etc., to the middle-class, nice girl, good-diction modus operandi when she's in the company of the the likes of Robert F., for example. She shows how tight her game really is and isn't afraid to do whatever it takes to pull off her intended caper.

Robert F., mild of manner and well composed, is cast as the antithesis of the Sammy J. character who is a down-and-dirty, bombastic rascal. Notice how Robert F's character, a white bail-bondsman, effortlessly mixes in well with people of color without being obsequious or trying to be hip: He is merely himself and lets that fact set the tone for whatever may ensue.

Sammy J. is his usual awesome self, with great support from Bobby D. and Brigid F. That unholy trio makes sparks fly as the drama unfolds. Notice how Bobby D's character slowly shifts gears from a mellow understated ex-con to a violent shooter when he becomes unduly provoked: a nice touch from Mr. DeNiro.

Quentin T's usually crisp directorial skills are in evidence here, as his cutting in and moving back and forth in time work very well. His rewinds in time allow the viewer to see the same scenes from another vantage point so that one can see the logical progression of events from several angles. All that and an awesome, cleverly positioned soundtrack that kicks much booty! How about "Across 110th Street" at the ending? Did she "get across" or what?!

This is my favorite Quentin T. film: ya gotta check it out!

No individual has done more to degrade, besmirch, and corrupt modern American cinema than Quentin Tarantino. He is derivative at best, a plagiarist at worst. His one contribution to the genre is making movies more obsessively violent and grotesque than they already are. His one subject, already exhausted before he arrived, is gangster life. He tirelessly perpetuates the myth than criminals and other violent edge-dwellers are "cool."

Tarantino's strength is in structuring a screenplay, the best example of this is the hideously cynical Pulp Fiction. (Pulp Fiction, which had great moments and great cameos, rode on the shoulders of Samuel Jackson's amazing performance. To its eternal discredit it revived the career of a then forgotten John Travolta, about whom, the less said the better.)

Jackie Brown is the one movie where QT got it right. The pace is slow and the audience gets a chance to know and care about the characters. Pam Grier and Robert Forster are superb as unremarkable people caught in an extraordinary squeeze. Jackson is so smooth that he is creepy and laughable all at once.

For a welcome change, the violence is mainly off-screen. QT would do well to remember that you don't need to kill 100 people with a sword to make a movie interesting, especially if all 100 are two-dimensional. All you really need is one character the audience cares about. Pam Grier as Jackie Brown is such a character, so is Forster's Max Cherry. By the end you really do wish it were possible for them to ride off into the sunset.