Jackie Brown, Tarantino grayest movie

Rating: 8/10 (12 January 2012)

Although I'm a Tarantino fan since his second film's bloody pulp through the Germanic villains of his last, going back to his six coloured dogs and forward again to Beatrix Kiddo, I've always looked at Jackie Brown with a certain unease. Like this was the black sheep on Tarantino's family. As to be fair, I decided to give it another shot, after all, Quentin has been trying hard enough. He probably deserves it.
The initial frames make me think immediately that this movie has grown old, fast. This is not an old movie. It is fourteen years young but its visual style yells out 80's. Not in a good way. Reservoir Dogs is 5 years its elder and looks a lot fresher and up to date.
The movie depicts the story of Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) – it would be weird if it was any other way – a flight attendant past her prime. Past her prime without much going for her, with apparently no way to sink lower, she is forced to play as best she can with the cards she is dealt. In other words, if life gives you lemons, you work as a cash courier back and forth Mexico for a badass gun runner (Ordell Robbie, played by Samuel L. Jackson). In one of these trips, she is caught. From this moment one, Jackie has to always stay one step ahead everyone else.
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