Rating: 
Summary: ak 47......
Review: "ak 47...when you absolutly have to kill every goddamn muthaf**ker in the room!" this movie has a great storyline and i love how tarantino doesn't tell the story straight. i think it keeps it more interesting by skipping around. anyway jackie brown brown is a must see especially if you like his other movies.
Rating: 
Summary: The ultimate player movie
Review: This movie is probably the ultimate player flick that I've ever seen. But I really think you have to be a true player to appreciate this, so once again, I'm sorry, but Quentin Tarantino still doesn't fit my standards. But this is the ultimate in player flicks, and that is why I give it a mere 3 stars. Good performance by Samuel L. Jackson. I'd even go as low as to say that Robert DeNiro was sub-standard in it. All I can say is, if you want to lower your standards, just go with mostly any Quentin Tarantino, because I haven't watched ANYTHING by him that I can enjoy! He's the type where I'll watch one of his movies and won't mind the occasional trip to the can every few scenes. Sorry Quentin, can't buy into shady people, and when it comes to shady, you fit the bill.
Rating: 
Summary: A disappointment
Review: "Jackie Brown," I am sorry to say, is a clunker. Coming three years after "Pulp Fiction" (an intolerably long wait for fans of Tarantino), this Pam Grier vehicle simply does not have a compelling enough story to justify its running time. I have absolutely nothing against long movies, but when you can feel the length of a 2.5-hour movie, there is a problem, and such is the case with "Jackie Brown." Tarantino apparently felt the need to prove he could make a "hang-out" movie like "Rio Bravo," in which the characters take a long time to recite lots of dialogue and basically sit around doing a whole lot of nothing. Frankly, after the "Citizen Kane"-like genius on display in "PF," I for one did not need to know that QT could make a hang-out movie. Here Tarantino is basically directing a made-for-TV movie, utilizing many of the stock filmmaking techniques that he shunned in "PF." (Character talks. Cut to the other character. He talks. Cut back to the other character. Close-up. Medium close-up. Two shot.) Tarantino's dialogue is great, and he's one of the best directors who ever lived, but scene after scene in which two people are smoking cigarettes and talking in a rather bland and boring office remind me more of a Movie of the Week than Tarantino. The story is quite miniscule but is stretched out over a long, long time. This is coupled with the unfortunate fact that Pam Grier -- sorry -- cannot act. She's almost there in some scenes, but time and again she demonstrates a complete inability to carry a movie convincingly. Samuel L. Jackson grates a nerve as Ordell, and Michael Keaton, though enjoyable, is sadly wasted (he has maybe seven total minutes of screen time). Talk about wasted -- Robert De Niro is here in a Tarantino film, and he's the most underused actor in the entire movie. Robert Forster provides the only saving grace. He's solid as Max Cherry and deserved his Oscar nomination. Too bad the movie wasn't a big enough success to launch his career into the stratosphere where it belongs. So, "Jackie Brown" disappoints. But that's OK. QT resurrected himself with the dazzling "Kill Bill," the epic that makes even "Pulp Fiction" look like child's play. No harm, no foul.
Rating: 
Summary: Intelligent movie with lots of memorable lines...
Review: Its about a 44-year old airline hostess Jackie Brown who's followed by the police for transporting money and drugs for Ordell Robbie, a guns and drugs trafficker. Robert Forster is Max Cherry, a bail bondsman who's done business with Ordell twice (once for Beaumont, who worked for Ordell but got killed by Ordell for being unreliable). Ordell has a million dollars stashed away in Mexico (dirty money he made), and relies on Jackie to smuggle it back to him in the US every time she flies. When the police found her out, needless to say, Ordell had no scruples about killing her, unless she came up with a plan around the situation, which she did. Anyway, Jackie's plan was ingenious and she manages to screw up both the police and Ordell and takes all the money for herself in the end, with the help of Max who actually developed a fondness for her. Like many Tarantino movies, there's a bit of love, lots of violence and swearing, and a twist in every plot. This is a good one because the plan Jackie came up with was so clever and so risky. At the end of the movie, I had to watch it again and the clever-ness of it all became even clearer. No doubt it will get the thumbs-up from women everywhere who will say "Thanks to Jackie Brown, who proved that older women can be attractive and smarter than everyone else..." or people who say "Thanks to Jackie Brown, who is yet another example of a black american women that kicked ass", etc.. Whatever you say about this movie, you have to admit, its really Tarantino's masterpiece. I'm going to watch Kill Bill 2 next!
Rating: 
Summary: Quintin Tarrentino is a Counterfitter of Talent.
Review: It's sad that Quentin Tarentino can only talk about himself these days. But it makes sense that his head has expanded beyond control with his success. A success written and unversally lauded by film critics who might as well be giving away awards to counterfitters, because that's the substance of the mans talent. Tarentino's films are universally and fundamentally boring for anyone who has ever lived a real life and not just fantasized about having one. His dipictions of violence are eminate from his own personal lack of sexual energy. Sadly, teenage males without girlfriends seem to like these slammed together video games that are being called brilliant, and continue to support the trash factory that generates this type of hyper garbage. It's especially sad when a true film afficienado understands the brilliance of all of the original pictures which he doggedly ripped off and claimed the scenes for his own. If one more person calls this sad, pathetic, lack of a man a genious, I will become even more sick of him. Please get a life and buy a real movie.
Rating:
Summary: Not your average tarantino flick...
Review: and that's a good thing. I can understand how people expecting a "Tarantino movie" were dissapointed with the film. It lacks the excessive over the top violence, pop-culture references, and dark humor that fill his other films. However for those expecting a well scripted (though it does drag in some moments) and well-acted film; this definitely would fit the bill. It contains all the great dialogue of an Elmore Leonard novel, and the greatest "sounds of the 70's" music since Reservior Dogs. The best description I could manage for the movie for this film is "Out of Sight" without the excessive gloss. It plays out like any Elmore Leonard movie, but Tarantino's style made it look and feel like it belonged in the same era that gave us "Foxy Brown", or "Dirty Harry." Speaking of "Foxy Brown," Pam Grier gives what has to be her best performance ever in this film. While Samuel L. Jackson and Robert De Niro continue to show us how why they are great actors; Robert Foster as the wise, but smitten, Max Cherry makes this movie great. If you want a "Tarantino film", this isn't for you. However if you want a well-made Elmore Leonard movie, made by a great director who loves the 70's as much as he does making good movies, this is for you.
Rating:
Summary: Jackie Brown is alot of fun
Review: With Jackie Brown Tarentino has created a perfect film mixed with crime, great dialouge and great acting. The story based on Elmore Lenord's Rum Punch is adapted well to Tarentino's style. Pam Grier makes a great comeback and will win you over with her wit an attitude. Jackie Brown was a let down to many Tarentino fans who say the film was not enough like Pulp Fiction. I think that is a good thing. Tarentino is trying out new things, as much as he loves making movies he loves watching them. With Jackie Brown he is proving to him self that he can adapt a novel better than most older directors. The film is loaded with great dialouge, and acting. The best performance is oddly Robert Forster who is fantastic as a bail bondsmon on his way out of the buisness. Tarentino has a way of getting the best out of his actors and thats is so improtant to the film. Jackie Brown is alot of fun.
Rating:
Summary: Better than 'Pulp Fiction'.
Review: 'Jackie Brown' is a much better film than the overrated garbage that is 'Pulp Fiction'. The soundtrack to the film is great and pacing of the story is just fantastic.
Rating:
Summary: so close
Review: Jackie Brown is almost a great movie. At first glance how can you miss with Pam Grier (Ms. Grier is living proof that the guys who run Hollywood are no smarter than the rest of us. Why isn't this incredibly charismatic actress working right now?), Sam Jackson (Hey Hollywood when are you going to give this man an Oscar nod?) and a performance from Robert Forster that almost steals the movie? The problem is not with the actors it's the fact that the film is too long and really needs editing. Just because you film something doesn't mean it needs to get into the final cut. There are numerous sloppy moments that dont' add to the film and just drag the action down. It's a crime thriller, not the epic that Tarantino apparently tried to force it to be. Still, there is so much that is absolutley right with the movie that it is definitely worth a look.
Rating:
Summary: Far Better Than Attendance Showed
Review: As with most Elmore Leonard books-to-movies (think Get Shorty!), this is better than expected. Elmore's material is so very good, even Tarantino can't mess it up too badly. Pam Grier is super and this is a sleeper movie that did not get the attention it deserves. You should watch this because it's better than you think it will be.
| 
