Cleopatra Jones DVD (1973)

Cleopatra Jones details

Format:	15 DVD
Starring:	Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes, Shelley Winters, Tamara Dobson
Director:	Jack Starrett
Genre:	Action/Adventure - African/American, Thriller
Studio:	WARNER HOME VIDEO

DVD 1 disc

Name	Discs
Cleopatra Jones	15 Feature

DVD Information

Run time:	1 hour 24 minutes
Rental release:	Currently unavailable
Main languages:	English

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Tamara doesn't cut it

By chungking (101 reviews) from London , 25 Nov 2005

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Classic blaxploitaition cinema. It has the clothes, the hair, the jive and the black power politics but…it doesn’t have Pam Grier. Tamara Dobson looks good parading around in her various fashion model outfits but her fight scenes are badly staged and she doesn’t have the earthy presence of Grier to convince. Get the feeling she’d be more at home in a t.v. soap than a blaxploitation film. Antonia Fargas is in it and delivers his usual charismatic hustler performance which is the best thing about the film.
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Tame, but fun

By MrBenn (24 reviews) from Liverpool , 07 Jun 2007

I have to agree with the other reviewers - the absence of Pam Grier, or another actress of similar gravitas, hurts this film big-time. Tamara Dobson just doesn't have the same charisma of Pam in Coffy, Foxy Brown, The Big Doll House etc. Ultimately this is a far softer, friendlier, way less sleazy form of blaxploitation than we get in the aforementioned films - and where's the fun in that, you may well ask?! Well, it's still kind of entertaining, but more like an extended episode of Charlie's Angels with a bit of lo-fi James Bond stuff thrown in. Enjoyable, but pretty forgettable.
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Tamara doesn't cut it

By chungking (101 reviews) from London , 25 Nov 2005

Classic blaxploitaition cinema. It has the clothes, the hair, the jive and the black power politics but…it doesn’t have Pam Grier. Tamara Dobson looks good parading around in her various fashion model outfits but her fight scenes are badly staged and she doesn’t have the earthy presence of Grier to convince. Get the feeling she’d be more at home in a t.v. soap than a blaxploitation film. Antonia Fargas is in it and delivers his usual charismatic hustler performance which is the best thing about the film.
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Black Power

By a customer from Billericay, England , 21 May 2005

First of the Cleopatra Jones films & the best. Tamara looks good, drives a Stingray as if it was going out of fashion. The plot is not overly brain busting. The cops are either racist or so enamoured of her (shes a special agent) that they drool & go brain soft in her presence. The M Arts are a bit nuff, But Huggy Bear is Cool Man.

Good If your a fan of Blaxploitation..
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Not the best...

By spp from manchester , 31 Jan 2005

This is nicely shot and as usual with blaxploitation films the soundtrack's incredible, but it's badly acted and not tremendously engaging. If you're a fan of the genre give it a go but if not a better starting point is the 'shaft' or 'superfly' series as an introduction.
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