Excellent plot - perfect cast

Rating: 10/10 (23 May 2003)

This film is superbly crafted with excellent twists in the plot and in depth character studies of several people.
There is no such thing as "blacksploitation" it was the name given to films like the original Shaft which depicted a black male as being sexually desirable. The red necks couldn't stand that and had to rubbish Shaft and black males were recast back into comic roles (E.g. Will Smith.) Proof? I don't know of a single other film, which depicts a black male as an object of sexual desire.
Jackie Brown is beautiful and smart but has been `round the block` a few times and is sick of starting her life over again every few years. She outsmarts the crooks and the cops and falls for the bail bond guy who assisted her. The film's ending is quite sad as he lets her go and then realises - with a shock - that he will never again get the chance of such a fantastic woman.
Watch and enjoy!