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For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

When her undercover cop boyfriend is murdered, bombshell Foxy Brown (Pam Grier) is out for revenge. She goes undercover as a call girl for a sleazy couple (Peter Brown, Kathryn Loder) that runs a prostitution and drug syndicate. Voluptuous and tough Pam Grier is the whole show, kicking ass and looking good doing it. Antonio Fargas plays her weaselly brother. Sid Haig has a small part as a horny pilot. The fight in the lesbian bar and the airplane murder are highlights. Foxy's final moment of revenge left me speechless. Cool theme song, nice nudity, and lots of violence like most of the great blaxploitation movies. Contains some pretty rough scenes and racist language so be prepared for that if you're squeamish. Not quite as good as Coffy but still entertaining.

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'.

While arguably Pam Grier's best known work from the period when she owned the Blaxploitation genre, Foxy Brown is unfortunately the least satisfying offering from that chapter of her filmography. While Grier is always delightful to watch, this rather silly outing doesn't offer enough action or originality to distract the viewer from how ultimately stupid the premise is.None of the plot turns that propel the story forward are the least bit feasible, and while I'm certainly aware that films like this aren't meant to be taken seriously, seeing how well Coffy balanced the camp elements with a gritty urban realism makes this follow-up seem disappointing and disjointed.The general plot concerns the murder of Grier's government informant boyfriend, who has been given facial reconstructive surgery to protect his identity from the underworld figures he infiltrated. Apparently, the surgery wasn't all that radical, because despite the sincerity with which Grier and boyfriend's fellow Feds marvel at his unveiling, Grier's sleazy drug addict brother is able to recognize him upon seeing him in his new guise for approximately 10 seconds.Her brother, of course, drops the dime to our resident drug carteles, who are looking for revenge against the man who irked them, although it's not entirely clear why they want him dead. Obviously, the members of this underworld family are not in prison, and are still free to orchestrate their dope trade unhindered, so one has to wonder exactly how this former agent wronged them so significantly that they're willing to risk a broad daylight hit against him. Anyway, he apparently did, so they shoot him down in front of Grier's house. It's worth noting that the two assassins ALSO are able to ascertain his identity after seeing his new face for 10 seconds... This is apparently the most piddling facial reconstruction in the history of film, and one can't help but think that he might have been safer if they skipped the plastic procedure and threw a pair of Groucho glasses on him instead.Grier is, of course, devastated, and immediately sets a revenge plan in action. Once she finds the parties responsible, she does what any rational person would do: poses as a hooker to get inside their organization. Surely, there must be an easier way to get close enough to them to hatch an egg of vengeance (especially since her "audition" for the call girl position allows her to walk right into the midst of their home-base and stand face to face and alone in the room with the woman who ordered her lover's death).But we wouldn't have much of a movie if Foxy's plan was that simple, so we follow her on a call-job, where she befriends a fellow working gal who is content to continue hooking even though she has a husband and child, who storm their way onto the cartel's compound to confront her as she and Foxy leave for their assignment. (Security at the estate that serves as base of operations for both a call-girl ring and a lucrative drug pushing syndicate must not be a high priority, since this random guy can just walk onto the grounds carrying a small child). This subplot is rather meaningless, and the hooker she befriends eventually disappears from the film without any explanation, but the whole point of this detour seems to be for the cartel to find out Foxy is playing spy so that they can send her to a pair of their henchmen to be raped, tortured, and force-fed heroin.Now armed with even more incentive for revenge, Foxy escapes, enlists the help of a local vigilante crew, seduces Sid Haig, and eventually has her bloody vengeance, producing a few memorable bits along the way, luckily for us. One of these involves a thug meeting an airplane propeller head-on to delicious effect, and another finds Foxy castrating the lover of the cartel's chairwoman and delivering his cash and prizes to her in a pickle jar.There are plenty of cheap thrills here to make Foxy Brown a worthy view, but nothing that will encourage repeat viewing the way that Coffy's much more violent, sexy, and solid template does. Having an original title doesn't disguise the fact that this film is, for all intents and purposes, a sequel, thus subject to the familiar rule of diminishing returns. Foxy Brown may not be an Empire Strikes Back, but it definitely isn't a Phantom Menace, so Grier completists won't feel much pain while crossing this one off their list. If that sounds like a meager recommendation, it is, but if you're a fan of Blaxploitation films or Pam Grier, you already know you're going to see this. So why do you care what I think anyway?

Foxy Brown, was one of the gems of the Blaxploitation era. It's positively campy, gritty, and exciting. The fabulous, drop-dead gorgeous Pam Grier, played Foxy Brown with a seething conviction. After her man was gunned-down by drug-dealers, Foxy is out for blood. And she makes sure that the bad-guys shed their share, while she goes about the task of settling the score.Pam Grier made Foxy's rage and obsession with revenge, seem palpable. Foxy did whatever she had to do, to make the villains pay. The viewer really gets caught-up in Foxy's quest for justice. You want to cheer, when Foxy gets even with those who did her wrong. Pam Grier's stunning good looks, and her athletic grace, made her a perfect choice to play Foxy Brown. I can't imagine any other woman starring in this role. No other black female actress, was as compelling on-screen as Pam Grier was in the 70s.The cool funkiness of 70s Blaxploitation cinema, is certainly in evidence in Foxy Brown. The outrageously tacky clothes, giant 'fros, jive-talking' characters, slick cars, sexy mamas, gun-totin' urban thugs-it's all here in this film. If you're looking for a fat, juicy slice of 70s Blaxploitation, then Foxy Brown is just the movie for you.