Review of Jackie Brown (1997) by Jonl — 15 Aug 2007
I can certainly see what Tarantino wanted to do--explore the characters, but these characters are so incredibly mundane that it's just painful at 160 minutes. I think Tarantino realized this and just padded it out, which is why every shot in the movie is held to an absurdity, which probably made it impossible to edit to something reasonable given the lack of weight in the material.
The characters are boring rehashes (a waste of great talent), the dialogue Tarantino has so much obvious talent for is mediocre and the film is a good hour too long (maybe even more). What a shame.
This review of Jackie Brown (1997) was written by Jonl on 15 Aug 2007.
Jackie Brown has generally received very positive reviews.
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