the less Tarantinesque of Tarantino's movies

Rating: 8/10 (24 July 2013)

Somehow I missed 'Jackie Brown' - a Tarantino movie made in 1997 which takes in his directing career a chronological place between 'Pulp Fiction' and the two 'Kill Bill' movies. It is to some extent the less Tarantinesque of the Tarantino movies - 150 minutes of solid film making, a violent gangster movie very much in tone with the 90s, but lacking the excesses and the sarcasm of his greatest films. I am sure though that many other folks will consider it the best or one of the best films in his career, exactly for the same reasons I did not like it completely. Great acting by Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda and Palm Grier. Excellent soul music soundtrack - Tarantino's mobsters have a special taste for music, did you notice?