Tarentino puts more than one cherry on top for us (possible spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (24 May 2001)

This is a truly brilliant film. It is hard to know where to start in praising it. I enjoyed Pulp Fiction, but this was in a whole other league - the gangster movie done from the point of view of an ageing black woman. What a stroke of genius! So I will go through what I loved about it:
music - Tarentino knows exactly what to play and when. The Delfonics track just tells you Max has fallen in love with Jackie. Also, Jackie lip synching to Street Life at the end - both incredibly affirming about how strong this woman is, yet you realise also that she's still alone..
mood - again, wonderful. It has the excitement of the money swap, but also wonderful slow scenes - especially those between Max and Jackie. The gentle kiss at the end - what a heartbreaker!I loved the whole 70s feel to the decor, cars, and even the choice of drinks - vodka and orange
theme - how unusual to see a perceptive commentary on growing older and wiser in a film about gangsters. Clothes - Jackie just looks 'too cool for school' in that suit.
Humour -it was also dead funny, in an unnerving kind of way. The usual Tarentino instant classic quote dialogue.
Pam Grier - makes an excellent sassy heroine, to place alongside those Sex and the city girls or Bridget Jones (book version obviously!) in the girl power canon, but she is far more affecting - she really has lived on the wrong side of the tracks for so long, and reading between the lines, that pilot husband of hers was a right (insert rude word here that imdb editor would not allow!)To answer the question, what do I think Jackie is doing now that one of the comments posed, well I hope she loved her trip to Spain, and was able to come back to the States, pick up her vinyls, take Max out for a slap up dinner, and then move to Brazil and party all night with men half her age. Although it would have been a happier ending if her and Max had got it on, it is all the more romantically bitter sweet that they didn't - and so they never should!