'Foxy Brown' is truly terrible and very very enjoyable, at least once it cranks into its second half, when half a dozen scenes of fun filled violence and weaponry and sex and trash talk really rip it up.
Pam Grier grows into her role and her performance as the vengence seeking retributer is a long class above her own playing in earlier scenes and most of the acting from almost everyone else. Physically she is perfect for the role and as the film progresses it's her physicality that needs to come to the fore, and it sure does.
Enduring resilience, motivation and mind altering sexiness are all exaggerated, exactly like the film needs.
The ways in which the film is also, actually terrible, are all so obvious and conventional as to be not worth listing. It's awful. But it's very very grand awful. I like 'Foxy Brown' and that's pretty much due to Grier in the title role, half a dozen scenes of class bravado and the strong sense of 70's blaxploitation and African American participation in characters telling the story from an African American perspective.
I rate 6/10 because all the failings and limitations of 'Foxy Brown' are mundane and clear: pretty much every way you could take a film to task; but the good in 'Foxy Brown' means that I recommend it to anyone happy to let that go.
Pam Grier grows into her role and her performance as the vengence seeking retributer is a long class above her own playing in earlier scenes and most of the acting from almost everyone else. Physically she is perfect for the role and as the film progresses it's her physicality that needs to come to the fore, and it sure does.
Enduring resilience, motivation and mind altering sexiness are all exaggerated, exactly like the film needs.
The ways in which the film is also, actually terrible, are all so obvious and conventional as to be not worth listing. It's awful. But it's very very grand awful. I like 'Foxy Brown' and that's pretty much due to Grier in the title role, half a dozen scenes of class bravado and the strong sense of 70's blaxploitation and African American participation in characters telling the story from an African American perspective.
I rate 6/10 because all the failings and limitations of 'Foxy Brown' are mundane and clear: pretty much every way you could take a film to task; but the good in 'Foxy Brown' means that I recommend it to anyone happy to let that go.