Jackie Brown

Actors:  Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Michael Keaton, Robert Deniro, Bridget Fonda

Rating;  8 out of 10, another great addition to the work of Tarrantino that includes one of the most detestable villains in movie history in Jackson’s Ordel Robbie.  I think Jackson breaks some sort of record for the number of times he uses the F word.  This was great fun as we watch the almost shy romance develop between the grizzled bail bonds man Max Cherry (Forster) and Jackie (Grier), the world weary flight attendant.  This takes place in the whirlwind of crime “masterminded” by Jackson and his befuddled, ex con employee Louis, played with great aplomb by Deniro.  He is so good in supporting roles like this.  Fonda as the drug soaked beach bunny is so gratingly good that you almost cheer when Deniro finally has had enough.  This is what Tarrantino does, surrounding his really memorable characters with a convoluted plot that moves right along.  Of course you have to include any discussion of this movie, the Chicks with Guns video (Ordel’s marketing tool), a great extra on the blu ray.  This was a very long movie that is well worth the time spent, great fun.

MVP:  Forster as Max Cherry the smitten hero who serves as the stable character with all the craziness swirling around him