SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

D' Francis This film was a total snooze. Generic plot. Same old gangster blaxploitation crap. Nothing intelligent, deep or creative. I'm not sure whether this is supposed to be funny or it's a serious attempt at telling a story, but it fails at both.One thing this movie never fails in trying to do is have Pam Grier enter each scene with different clothes for male viewers to ogle her in. She's proved to be a talented actress but Foxy Brown doesn't give her any room to be more than a sex object.Foxy Brown was a snooze. This is the lowest rating I've had to give so far. I guess a 1/10 would be a "Nazis are great" movie.

Uriah43 When a pusher by the name of "Link Brown" (Antonio Fargas) loses half a kilo of of cocaine worth about $20,000, his suppliers become irate and send two thugs to work him over. Desperately needing help he calls his sister "Foxy Brown" (Pam Grier) to rescue him from the two goons. She manages to get to him before they can grab him and puts him up at her place for a few days completely unaware of the exact nature of his predicament. In addition to that, her boyfriend "Michael Anderson" (Terry Carter) is an undercover cop who has just undergone a face-lift and assumed a new identity because the same suppliers have a contract out on his head. Now, rather than reveal what happens next I will just say that things begin to take a severe turn for the worse and Foxy Brown suddenly has a score or two to settle with some major league drug dealers. Be that as it may, Pam Grier puts on an exciting performance which I believe is even superior to her role a year earlier in "Coffy". However, like many blaxploitation films during this time the dialogue and fashions cause this movie to seem quite dated. Likewise, while there is some nudity, violence and course language that may not be appropriate for a general audience, it all fits in with the overall plot and adds a rough character which in my opinion enhances the film. One of the better films of this genre.

Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71) After watching this film, I love it, it is an awesome action, chick-flick with sweet soul/funk music. Now I know what you are thinking: when I said "chick-flick," well I meant that chick-flicks aren't just about romance, comedies or films about girlfriends. They are about women, and the love and tragedies they go through; also about the bad-a** women like our Foxy Brown.Well anyway, this film starts with a street hustler named Link Brown, cringing in a bar full of police officers, he's trying to wait out a bunch of thugs who want to beat him for holding out on a loan from losses incurred from street gambling schemes. In desperation he calls his tough sister Foxy to bail him out yet again. Foxy runs some of the thugs into the river in her car. Afterwards, Link pleads to her that he'll live the straight life if he can hide out at her pad for a while. Foxy reluctantly agrees.Later, Foxy goes to visit her boyfriend in hospital. He name is Dalton Ford, an undercover officer who has been investigating the same crime-ring that Link owed money to. The hoodlums thought they'd killed him, but he really ended up in hospital for plastic surgery to give him a new and safe identity. Emerging as handsome Michael Anderson, he and Foxy hope to start life anew. On the streets, they encounter a black gang who beat and run drug pushers out of town. Foxy introduces Michael to the freeloading Link, and Link acts suspicious. Links leaves Michael and Foxy to themselves, but later looks at some newspaper cuttings and adds two and two together. There is an enormous debt to pay ... and this kind of information could clear that debt. No sooner does Foxy think her life will be smooth, than Michael crashes through her door, breathing his last and shot to death. With some detective work, the grieving and raging Foxy soon tracks Link down at his white girlfriend's, and as they snort coke she storms in on them. Livid with anger, Foxy won't kill her own brother, but she does force the identity of Michael's killers out of him, then force him to leave the city. And so Foxy is out for vengeance.So that is all I am tellin' you folks, you will have to see the film for yourself, and see how it ends. I also recommend it for fans of soul/funk music (the music and songs by Willie Hutch), seventies cinema or blaxploitation cinema. Of course I would say "Soul Cinema" because the term "blaxploitation" sounds kind of offensive to me, I mean come on! Barrack Obama is the new President of the US, and he is a black man...what would he and others like him think?

Michael_Elliott Foxy Brown (1974) *** (out of 4) Enjoyable, over the top blaxploitation classic about Foxy Brown (Pam Grier), a woman who seeks revenge on the evil white people who killed her fiancé. This is an incredibly silly, racist and over the top film but I really enjoyed it. The performances are beyond bad but Grier still has a style that's able to carry the film and her nude scenes aren't too bad. The violence is so crazy that you can't help but laugh. The stereotypes also get major laughs especially one politically incorrect scene where Foxy enters a lesbian bar and fights some "manly" women.