Memorable, crazy movie

Absolutely Fantastic

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

This is a typical Pam Grier film. Antonio Fargus plays her hustler brother who gets her boyfriend killed by drug dealers. Pam plays the prostitute to go undercover and get the bad guys.This was the era a whack-a-da music, wide lapels, chrome bumpers, screeching tires, and loud carburetors. Pam gets in some good lines as a prostitute. Very politically incorrect language by today's standards.Guide: F-bomb, sex, implied rape, nudity (Pam Grier, Sharon Kelly, Sally Ann Stroud + others)

I thought this was a pretty good movie-with a pretty good plot line. It's interesting to see some guys in the film beating up a drug dealer because the cops didn't care about stuff like that in a poorer area which looked pretty OK to me compared to tons of places out there. Pam Grier was good in this movie which doesn't really feature explicit sex but you do see some gals in short dresses. OO la la. Considering the way gals dress these days i.e. the show no skin brigade-it might appear risqué when its actually pretty tame stuff. Not bad action sequences help the picture along. Worth a look if you've never seen it. You can see what Pam Grier looked like as a younger actress since most people have seen her in Quentin Tarantino's 1990's film Foxy Brown which isn't a remake of this one but is a separate entity. Pan Grier faded from films by 1981-having only a bit part in Fort Apache The Bronx in 1981 and that was pretty much the last we saw of her for a long time. It's definitely 'blaxploitation' to give PG the part of a crazed hooker in the Fort Apache movie-as in they typecast her like someone in casting had a vague idea about the 1970's Foxy Brown movie but hadn't seen it. She was a good bet for more than a bit part. Fo' sho'.

Writer & director Jack Hill's classic Blaxploitation thriller "Foxy Brown" stars Pam Grier as a soul sister who gets what she wants after the villains gun down her boyfriend. Dalton Ford (Terry Carter) is a Federal narcotics undercover officer who is surgically given a new face. He also happens to be the boyfriend of Foxy Brown. Incredibly, Foxy's own flesh and blood brother Link (Antonio Fargas) squares himself with the mob when he alerts them that Foxy's boyfriend is one of their adversaries. They erase the $20-thousand debt that Link owes them and allows him to go back into the heroin business. After the mob knocks off Ford, Foxy swears vengeance. She joins the organization that Katherine Wall (Kathryn Loder of "The Big Doll House") runs and starts a chain reaction that topples these unsavory criminals who traffic in prostitution and narcotics. She begins by humiliating a judge that another call girl and she are supposed to pleasure in a big downtown motel. They push Judge Fenton (Harry Holcombe) out into the hallway, and a group of outraged ladies attack him when it appears that he is molesting another woman. Actually, all he is doing is trying to get out of sight because he doesn't have any pants on. This corrupt judge is responsible for letting drug runners off the hook in his courtroom. The villainous Steve (Peter Brown of "Laredo") kills Link and his girlfriend with a sawed-off shotgun. An African-American vigilante gang castrates Steve when he tries to escape from a rendezvous in Mexico. Foxy tells the lead villainess that "Death is too easy for you bitch." This savage soul sister thriller is pretty hardcore, and Pam Grier comes out on top at fade-out. "Foxy Brown" was the last of the four films that director Jack Hill and Grier worked together on; the other films were "The Big Doll House," "The Big Bird Cage," and "Coffy." Not for the squeamish!

Of course I enjoy watching blaxploitation flicks just as much as the next guy (or girl) but that doesn't mean I also regard those movies as particularly good ones. One thing they always have going for them is that they are incredibly entertaining to watch, no matter how bad and silly things can get at times. This for most part also goes for "Foxy Brown", though the genre has definitely produced better movies.I feel somewhat disappointed by this movie, since it's often regarded as a classic within its genre. I have just seen far better and more entertaining blaxploitation flicks to call this movie one of the best ones out of the genre. I had some fun with it but was not throughout entertained. This is all really due to the quite badly written- and simplistic story.It's a movie that seems to have all of the right ingredients; Sex, violence, nudity and Pam Grier is a whole lot of woman, as even her brother says in this. However the movie is really not edgy enough with any of its ingredients and the movie even seems to be a bit a tame one, especially when it comes down to its violence. And because it's not edgy enough; the movie is not constantly entertaining enough, throughout.But again, this really is due to its story. It has a really standard story in it, that just seems to consists out of a couple ideas that got thrown together but never really feels like one great, likable, big whole. Sure, it provides the movie with plenty of good and fun moments but overall the movie would had benefited more from a far more consistent and also more original script.Still a thing that makes this movie special and somewhat above average is the presence of Pam Grier in this. You could say that she really was a too good actress for these sort of movies but it didn't seem like she minded playing in this sort of movies, since she became quite a popular actress because of it and it paid for all of the bills of course. Her presence really uplifts the movie and her acting does the same to some of the movie its story elements and dialog as well. Fore everyone else isn't really impressing with their acting and most performances are quite weak, to be honest (Sid Haig excluded of course!).It's an OK enough movie to watch, though nothing too impressive or entertaining.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/