Jackie Brown (1998)

Like Pulp Fiction before it, Jackie Brown is another slow-boat ride through Tarantino World. It's a familiar setting, inspired by Elmore Leonard's crime novel Rum Punch: all gun-toting muthafuckers, sky-high party girls, casual violence, cigarettes, seedy bars, stolen money and irreverent chit-chat. It's practically a checklist of the director's favourite things. You expect them to be there - and so perhaps, at the back of your mind, you expect Jackie Brown to be like Pulp Fiction. You expect shrapnel-sharp dialogue to unfold, memorable scenes to stick in your mind, and for Jackson, De Niro and '70s blaxploitation babe Pam Grier to steal the movie with towering performances. You might even hope for something to rival the old ""royale with cheese"" conversation.

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