Review of Jackie Brown (1997) by Theraggedflygon — 26 Jan 2020

Reservoir Dogs was a fantastic movie for two reasons: excellent, quippy dialogue and exciting crime story full of realistic violence and superb acting. Pulp Fiction best exemplifies the former while Jackie Brown instead embodies the latter. While much of the violence from Pulp Fiction plays into the humorous aspect of the movie, the violence in Jackie Brown feels far more authentic. The film revolves around a main group of six or so characters who each have their own motivations, their own aspirations, their own plans, and their own allegiances. This creates a brilliant plot in which throughout the audience is trying to figure out when/how each character's true nature will be revealed to the audience. Jackson, Grier, and Forster all particularly shine in this film.

This film has a decently long runtime of about two and half hours, but throughout the entire film, I remained excited throughout as the plot continued to twist and turn. In standard Tarantino fashion, something in the plan goes wrong, and watching each character act accordingly was the most exciting part for me.

The first half of this film is quite slow, but it contains some of Tarantino's best writing while the backhalf contains one of the most exciting third acts that I have seen in quite a while. This is a must watch for any fans to typical heist movies as it is sure to offer something different from the norm that will keep it exciting throughout a viewing.