Foxy Brown (1974)

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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/

Well, they told me "take it as it is". OH, I'm a scriptwriter myself, and how this is the sentence that I want to hear the most about anything I may write. Actually with principle like that, not only life will become easier, but also there will be no more existence for something called the art of criticism. However, let us see how far can I abide by this principle.."Things that I'll take as they are" :_(Pam Grier) : For being this outstandingly sexy, along with this mass destruction weapon. She was historically one of a kind, with no antecedent, a heroin nearly all longed for, AND not that mannish like others (Tamara Dobson as Cleopatra Jones, totally torturous !). There is something in her charisma that may tell you "I can love you greatly, or blow you away.. greatly too" without any chance to be cynical. In brief, she can be all woman, and all man being all woman in the same time ! "Things that I'll never take !" : _I'm not that bad as a person, and I think nobody ever was that bad to be doomed by (Kathryn Loder). Her appeal is horrible, and her talent is even more horrible (remember her being in hot love with her lover, that was hot to hellish extent !). And Foxy let her alive at the end ?! Why to be that merciful ?? She's evil, look at me while watching her to know how she's evil FOR REAL !. I know that every person got to be loved by at least someone on the planet, but as for Miss (Loder) I think that I'm the wrong person for that ! Huge discussion : Who was worse, Kathryn Loder or the actress who played the sad whore ?, I think both gave us an enough abomination anyway !_(Antonio Fargas) is one big star, who can act for a lot of times, this is evidently not one of them. In fact, that proves that Blaxploitation movies are not about acting. "Things that I'll take as they're ..So laughable !" :_When Foxy was talking, rather making some speech, about terminating the evil guys, she was in such a very sexy outfit, in front of all the black gang's men. That's distracting, it turned the scene into comedic ! _When Foxy took the "....." of the lover boy to his lover girl (Kathryn Loder) at the end, and just showed it. How the evil woman recognized that this "....." belongs to her man ?! Whatever the answer is, it made me laugh for a long time during the viewing and after it, and maybe till now ! _When Foxy's man got killed, she goes directly after that to her brother with a threatening gun, real anger, and in the most happily flashy clothes ever !! The clothes' fast absurd changing, which has no logic and no attention to the storyline, is devastating yet in a funny way !_Foxy is having no job. Cool.. I want to be super bad too ! it's nice to fight crime, and have revenge, and get victory in 90 min, with no jail at the end as well !"Things that aren't be taken as they were !" :_(Jack Hill) filmed it through 17 days. He's not Orson Welles, he's maybe a smarter luckier Ed Wood, who could pack this kind of slangy rough flicks where all the white people are pure evil, and nearly all the black people are the opposite. But those days have gone. And this rage came to be under control cinematically. So (Hill) stopped giving them, and us, this Hell. And the major studios now manufacture their own kinds of hells, yet without this racist point of view. _(Hill) loved to assure the strength of the women, with all the possible meanings of the word. These movies had hysterical violent and ceremonial of femininity, and to tell you the ironic truth I miss the last one very. Back then, James Bond movies or their likes focused on that powerfully. Now all the movies, including the new James Bond ones, are nothing but hysterical violent ONLY. Let alone the lamentable matter of not having a voluptuous chicks like (Pam Grier) anymore. I've never felt that there would be one negative side out of the Blaxploitation's contraction ! ..And finally "Thing that you can take it as it is, or not !" :_For the first time, I deemed it "the 1970s' indie trash". After a while, I understood how it was different at its time (ultra violent, sexually bold, racially offensive, vulgar language), plus so effective on the next decades, being a sort of godfather to movies you may love and respect. Therefore I may deem it "spicy", with low budget and low points. Like any cheap restaurant's saltcellar, nevertheless got some hard condiment. Long story short : It's pickles, and NOT like the ones in the movie's end !