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...film is an elaborate, fitfully funny Tarantoon about chatty folks with big guns. Working reverently from Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, the writer-director tosses half a dozen wary people into the pit of their avarice and lets us guess who will survive. Pam Grier's title character is a flight attendant running money from Mexico to California for her drug boss Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), who is variously inconvenienced by his lazily taunting girlfriend (Bridget Fonda), his low-IQ henchman (Robert De Niro), an eager fed (Michael Keaton) and an aging bail bondsman (Robert Forster), whose creased face...
...hours, it all plays like the rough assembly of a 90-min. caper film--an anecdote told at epic length. Grier, foxy lady of '70s blaxploitation, is given little chance to radiate; you never even glimpse her magnificent shoulders. As for Tarantino, he is playing peekaboo with his sizable talent. Jackie Brown marks time, lots of it, between Pulp Fiction and his next great project...
...actress doesn't regard Jackie Brown as a comeback. "I never was away," says Grier, who lives in Colorado and has appeared in regional theater productions of Sam Shepard's Fool for Love and August Wilson's The Piano Lesson."I was honing my skills for when that Quentin Tarantino call would come...
Jackie Brown may not win over every aficionado of Grier's early work. In Coffy, Foxy Brown and Sheba, Baby, Grier's characters were at war with crooked cops and white power brokers, and with the black pimps and pushers who worked for them. In Foxy Brown she has a white dealer castrated; in Sheba, Baby she impales a yacht-owning white mobster who has been intimidating black businesses. In Jackie Brown Grier's character is motivated by necessity and money lust; she's a bagman for a crook, and at one point a cop turns down her offer...
...Still, Grier may develop a new fan base. At 48, she is someone more mature audiences can root for. "Women in society in their 40s feel the absence of a lot of things," says Grier, who is engaged to Kevin Evans, 35, a record producer. "Society says they are not attractive, have no sex appeal and are thrown away. That's not true. I'm as energetic as I've ever been, and my sex drive today is so intensified that I just drive myself crazy. I feel better than I felt at 19." The baddest one-chick hit squad...