Jackie Brown (1997)

After watching Jackie Brown, I'm convinced that Quentin Tarantino a big cinephile like myself, made this movie for me. Everything about Jackie Brown is beautiful from the opening scene to the last shot of the film. The acting, the cast, the story, the music, and the typical Tarantino dialogue where characters discuss something as random stuff as what they have at McDonald's in Paris is all here. I look at Jackie Brown as a movie where despite it's 2 hour run time, it moves at a fast pace and you really connect with the characters and their motivations. What I love about Tarantino's films is that he never really goes for the A-list celebrity of the time. He gets actors who excelled in movies from the 60's-70's and gives them the comebacks they deserve. John Travolta was box office poison in the 80's until Tarantino casted him in Pulp Fiction and he exploded back in the A-list category soon after. I look at an actor like Robert De Niro who as of recently, hasn't made any films that are considered classics at least from what I've seen and mind you, he has made some good films in the 70's & 80's. But for him to show up in a Tarantino film playing a character that's totally the opposite of what I'm used to seeing him do is pretty amazing. I think of Reservoir Dogs as Quentin's greatest film ever made, Jackie Brown is 2nd, while Pulp Fiction is 3rd on the list.

4/5