Jackie Brown is another Tarantino classic!

Rating: 8/10 (1 August 2005)

Quentin Tarantino has written and directed some of the best movies in the last 25 years, starting with Reservoir Dogs and all the way up through the Kill Bill movies. Each of his films has a distinctive quality about it, whether it's the violence or the harsh language, but the thing everyone remembers most is the dialogue between characters.
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.
Tarantino once again delivers the goods with this film. The movie starts off with a great dialogue between Jackson and De Niro about guns. The rest of the movie is very entertaining. Whenever Grier and Jackson talk, it's a good scene because the two have no idea what the other is about to do to the other one. They are both a little stressed out over the fact that the money isn't in the right place and are trying their best not to get each other pinched.
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.
Jackie Brown is vintage Tarantino. This film is over shadowed by his other giants (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2), but still is a great film. Tarantino is one of the best writers of recent cinema and this piece shines. Another great script from Tarantino, a fun plot, and an incredible cast give this movie something to be proud of. Quentin always delivers the goods, and this sure lives up to that. Jackie Brown is a great film, and don't you forget it!