SummaryWhat do a sexy stewardess, a street-tough gun runner, a lonely bail bondsman, a shifty ex-con, an earnest federal agent, and a stoned-out beach bunny have in common? They're six players on the trail of a half million dollars in cash! The only questions are ... who's getting played ... and who's gonna make the big score! [Miramax]
Directed By:Quentin Tarantino
Written By:Quentin Tarantino, Elmore Leonard
Jackie Brown
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62
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
57% Positive
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39% Mixed
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100
You savor every moment of Jackie Brown. Those who say it is too long have developed cinematic attention deficit disorder. I wanted these characters to live, talk, deceive and scheme for hours and hours.
78
It's a straight-ahead caper flick, very cool, and very, very Seventies (although it takes place in 1995), from production and costume design on down to the soundtrack.
User score
Generally Favorable
82% Positive
357 Ratings
357 Ratings
15% Mixed
65 Ratings
65 Ratings
3% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
Jul 17, 2022
10
The soundtrack is an all timer, Samuel L's best performance, a thoroughly entertaining ride from start to finish. 2nd for me on Tarantino's movies.
Aug 21, 2021
10
A strong battle of wits and a plot of lines being strung along a damn good script shape Tarentino's ‘Jackie Brown' into a super smart, well-shot, acted, and directed piece of crime-drama that turns into a believable romance.
75
Its greatest assets are imaginative camera work and top-flight performances from Pam Grier as the heroine, Samuel L. Jackson as the deadly boyfriend, and Robert Forster as the bail-bondsman who falls battily in love with her.
70
Tarantino puts together a fairly intricate and relatively uninvolving money-smuggling plot, but his cast is so good that you probably won’t feel cheated unless you’re hoping for something as show-offy as "Reservoir Dogs" or "Pulp Fiction."
60
At 2 1/2 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. [22 Dec 1997, p.80]
50
Except for a few of his trademark time-sequence zig-zags, Tarantino's storytelling is boringly linear. At a running time of two hours and 35 minutes, it often feels like we're slogging through a B-movie that got too big for its sprockets.
30
It's the flat, self-exposing dud that fate often keeps in store for the initially overpraised. [26 Jan 1998, p.24]
Dec 7, 2020
10
This is such a classic movie and always overlooked when QT best movies are discussed. This is one of my favorite QT movies and one I can watch over and over again
Aug 1, 2018
6
Decent, but too long. Not for me, I like Reservoir Dogs better. I didn't care for anything of this movie, I see this a middle of the road.
Sep 5, 2016
6
After all is said and done, this film just isn't worth 2 and a half hours of anybody's time. Even Tarantino's brilliance and the excellent cast couldn't turn this moronic plot line into something compelling. I don't know what on earth possessed Quentin Tarantino to choose a story like this to do a movie.
May 27, 2013
6
Posted on 5/26/13 08:04 PM QTs third film delivers none of the thrills you would expect to get from his work however this film does deliver enough twist and turns that make this film enjoyable and not a such a waste of time
May 24, 2018
2
The first 45 minutes was golden. The cast is great, The story progresses nicely and I honestly have no issues with it. It's the next hour and forty-five minutes I have an issue with. The pace just comes to a crippling halt, We are given long bouts of characters just sitting there talking to each other, Nothing really happening with the story is going on during this time either. It's just dialogue filled scenes that bore you to death and it ****. This movie should have been edited down by another half hour or more. There is way, way, way too much filler here and it doesn't do what could have been a decent movie justice.
Production Company:
- Miramax
- A Band Apart
- Lawrence Bender Productions
- Mighty Mighty Afrodite Productions
Release Date:Dec 25, 1997
Duration:2 h 34 m
Rating:R
Tagline:This Christmas, Santa's Got A Brand New Bag
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Awards Circuit Community Awards
• 5 Nominations
