A crime caper spun around an arms dealer (Samuel L Jackson) and the half a million dollars in cash he plans to bring into the country. The police would like the dealer and several factions in the plot would like the money. A key cog in all their schemes is Jackie Brown (voluptuous 1970s blaxploitation star Pam Grier), an air hostess already busted once and now acting as a money runner for the arms baron, who has just killed one minion whose arrest threatened his safety. How ageing bail bondsman Robert Forster, crumbling criminal Robert De Niro, stoned airhead Bridget Fonda and by-the-book cop Michael Keaton all become involved with the man and his money gradually unravels in a typically convoluted Tarantino plot in which the director sometimes toys with us at rather too great a length. But the plot has a moody atmosphere all its own and how its veteran talent shines, especially Grier, as foxy as ever in her late forties. STAR SPOT; Get out the magnifying glass to spot Mira Sorvino at the rear of the courtroom at Grier's arraignment.

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