Not Tarantino's Best Effort

Rating: 6/10 (16 March 2020)

Following mega-hits (especially back-to-back mega-hits like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction) is bound to be a tough job. If Reservoir Dogs didn't cross your path back when it first came out, Pulp Fiction would've and, by the time Quentin Tarantino began working on his third film, it's only inevitable that people would compare whatever we would go on to do with his two previously established hits. Perhaps as a response, he decided to make Jackie Brown, which goes in a different direction entirely.
As has already been said here on IMDb, this film is much more "mature" than anything else Tarantino's done, which could've worked in his favor. This movie, however, is a major slow-burn that really starts to drag before the halfway point.
A lot of people adore this film - would, in fact, place it on a pedestal as being Tarantino's best film - but it just wasn't for me. It wasn't a bad movie by any means, but it was a major disappointment to follow up the prior two films. This particularly story could've been justifiably told in a 90 minute window as opposed to the ass-numbing 154 minutes that is Jackie Brown.
I still maintain that Quentin Tarantino hasn't ever made a "bad" film, because "bad" this film is not. It's just not the best Tarantino film.