Foxy Brown (1974)

Pam Grier is Amazing, 7 May 2005

Foxy Brown is a great example of the Blaxplotation films made in the 1970s. It's a product of its time and (even though a remake is in the works) could not be made today. The PC crowd would go nuts if such a movie were released in 2005.

Foxy Brown is the story of a woman looking for revenge after her boyfriend is gunned down in front of her house. She's not going to let anyone, not even her brother, stand in the way of her mission.

Foxy Brown works primarily because of two key ingredients - Pam Grier and Jack Hill. After watching just a few minutes, it's easy to forget that your watching Grier and, instead, think you are really watching Foxy. Grier is perfect as Foxy. I honestly can't imagine anyone else in the role. She's one of those smart, tough, caring, and honest characters that you don't often, unfortunately, see being played by a black woman. She is the ultimate in her own butt-kicking, outfit-changing, pulling-a gun-from-her-afro kind of way.

As for Jack Hill, he was able to make a movie on a very tight, limited budget that looks much larger than it really is. There are a few instances where you would have liked to see Hill do a re-shoot, but for the most part, the movie's flaws are not obvious.

8/10