You won't recognize anyone.

Rating: 7/10 (27 March 2006)

Having become a household name with "Pulp Fiction", Quentin Tarantino followed it up with the somewhat confusing - but definitely worth seeing - "Jackie Brown". As the title character, Pam Grier gets involved in a series of lowlife events in LA. That's a loose description, but you may have to see the movie more than once to really understand it (I only saw it once).
I had never heard of Robert Forster before this movie came out, but he's quite impressive here as cop Max Cherry, trying to use Jackie to accomplish his goals. Possibly the most mind-blowing thing in the movie is Samuel L. Jackson's character Ordell Robbie. A low-level criminal with a pony-tail (yes, the silver screen's baddest motherf***er sports a pony-tail), he almost seems like the sort of person who should have been played by Denzel Washington - but make no mistake about it: Jackson does a good job with the role. It seems that Bridget Fonda's character didn't have much purpose of being in the movie; ditto Robert DeNiro's character. Michael Keaton's character is mostly interesting when you realize that this was his last good movie until "White Noise" last year.
All in all, this isn't the Tarantino movie that I would recommend above all others, but it is worth seeing. Jackie is quite a woman.