Wonderful!

Rating: 9/10 (29 October 2002)

I thought "Jackie Brown" was a wonderful movie. This is what happens when you have a well written story, competent directing and good acting. Look at the cast: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton and they were all superb in their roles. The story was inventive, involved and entertaining. The story didn't really have plot twists but you knew what was going to happen and you just didn't know how it could be pulled off. There were a few surprises like the character in the trunk and Bridget Fonda in the parking lot. Many people I've talked to didn't like the movie. They expected some Hollywood Lethal Weaponish crap with its requisite cliched script and formulaic car crashes and explosions. This movie seem to confuse them. Unfortunately they are kept happy with a steady diet of that crap and when a movie of this caliber comes along it throws them off. Thank you Quentin Tarantino for movies like this.