Jackie (Pam Grier) supplements her meager income as a stewardess by smuggling cash into the U.S. for gunnrunner Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson) - until the day an ATF agent (Michael Keaton) and an LA cop (Michael Bowman) bust her at the airport. The cops pressure her to help them bring down Ordell, threatening prison if she refuses.
With a sympathetic bailbondsman (Robert Forster), Jackie arrives at a bold, almost foolhardy plan to play off these opposing forces against each other. Matters are complicated by Ordell's confederates, Louis Gara (Robert De Niro) and Melanie Ralston (Bridget Fonda) who have agendas of their own. By appearing to cooperate with both sides, Jackie attempts to outfox them both and walk away with a half million dollar payday.
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coolnblue
hey,right there at the beginning when od and louis are discussing makes of guns and prices ,did any one notice that scene playing just slightly faster(and i do mean slightly) than normal,like the tape was being speeded up or something, look at lou's head the way it moves when he hands his glass off to be refilled. i noticed it on my dvd and vhs version.
10 months agoby @coolnblueFlag
John2347
AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherf*cker in the room, accept no substitutes.
10 months agoby @john2347Flag
Dan
Great, underrated movie.
11 months agoby @dan1Flag
coolnblue
too wiseguy..........i think it's his best, maybe, ..i must say that i've probably seen it more than pulp fiction and resovoir dogs. the first time i saw j b i didn't get it right there at the end scenes,i mean,who gets qt movies the first time anyway,He makes um that way ,one reason i believe is to get people to come back and spend more green but one thing i like about jb is there's talking
(like qt movies are,kinda like a "hang out with us" feel)
instead of bombs blowing up the whole , I didn't feel like i was being hurried though the story like most movies these days,example... ateam ,the losers,and even the expendables -action packed but plots lose focus in the caos of all the cgi and explosions. i've seen new things after watching jb a number of times and watched the story from different angles and perspectives. pam grier and robert forester are ...glad qt brought um back, Robert rodreigus is about to bring steven segal back in a big way ,i hope. him,don johnson(from the orig. miami vice) and robert denerro in the same movie,unfreaking believable!
1 year agoby @coolnblueFlag
WiseGuy
Great acting, fantastic dialogue, and a clever plot top this little underrated gem at the hands of the genius filmmaker and writer Quentin Tarantino. Surely, not his best film although being a great, entertaining, and very solid one.
1 year agoby @zgcorleone072Flag