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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The other reviewers for this film have (again) already covered most of what there is to say, but... for those of you who cannot be bothered to read massive write ups.
Pam Grier is absolutely stunning in this film. She is one of the most watchable actresses of all time and she can deliver a line, which helps. Great film, very funny, reasonably violent and highly enjoyable (for a b-movie)
Pam Grier is absolutely stunning in this film. She is one of the most watchable actresses of all time and she can deliver a line, which helps. Great film, very funny, reasonably violent and highly enjoyable (for a b-movie)
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Maxim magazine lists Coffy as number 7 on its list of the 50 best B-movies of all time, and there can clearly be no mistake about its status as a B-movie. Pam Grier shines in this hilarious action-packed blaxploitation flick where she first got her name as a 'black pin-up queen' during the early 70's. It is apparent after watching this film that no one remembers this for the bad-acting and dialogue, but for Pam Grier herself she is one mean sister.
This movie SCREAMS 'early 70's', from the afro wigs to the awesome outfits Coffy finds herself wearing whether it be at a gala for call girls or when she's undercover to kick some drug-dealer's nasty behind!
This brilliant film mixes comedy right in there with the action. From the campy catfight scenes when Coffy dumps a salad bowl onto a blonde girl's head, to when King George makes his first appearance and steps out of his car in his pimp outfit, complete right down to the feather in his hat!!! Just seeing Coffy smash a wine bottle on a table to defend herself against a crack head wielding a knife is riotous enough and also goes old school by putting razor blades in her hair!!! The action is fairly consistent. There are a lot of guns firing off and endless catfights.
But every time Coffy appears on screen and you just KNOW that some bad stuff is about to go down, you know that you're going to be taken for a fun ride! As I mentioned above, no one is watching this movie for an Oscar-nominated performance or even a decent soundtrack (the "Coffy" theme sung by the Gladys Knight & The Pips-wannabes halfway through the movie is timeless!!!) - You're there to be entertained... and entertained is what you'll get, guaranteed. This is one movie where you don't have to be drunk to enjoy it.
This movie SCREAMS 'early 70's', from the afro wigs to the awesome outfits Coffy finds herself wearing whether it be at a gala for call girls or when she's undercover to kick some drug-dealer's nasty behind!
This brilliant film mixes comedy right in there with the action. From the campy catfight scenes when Coffy dumps a salad bowl onto a blonde girl's head, to when King George makes his first appearance and steps out of his car in his pimp outfit, complete right down to the feather in his hat!!! Just seeing Coffy smash a wine bottle on a table to defend herself against a crack head wielding a knife is riotous enough and also goes old school by putting razor blades in her hair!!! The action is fairly consistent. There are a lot of guns firing off and endless catfights.
But every time Coffy appears on screen and you just KNOW that some bad stuff is about to go down, you know that you're going to be taken for a fun ride! As I mentioned above, no one is watching this movie for an Oscar-nominated performance or even a decent soundtrack (the "Coffy" theme sung by the Gladys Knight & The Pips-wannabes halfway through the movie is timeless!!!) - You're there to be entertained... and entertained is what you'll get, guaranteed. This is one movie where you don't have to be drunk to enjoy it.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Coffy is a very violent B-movie starring Pam Grier as a nurse who goes on a bloody rampage when her kid sister's life is wrecked by drug abuse, and her cop boyfriend is assaulted and left for dead before he can even begin tracking down the pushers responsible. Taking the law into her own hands, Coffy assumes the persona of an exotic prostitute and infiltrates the criminal underworld, first getting close to a dim-witted pimp, before eventually finding herself up against heroin dealers, contract killers, and corrupt politicians...
This seminal Blaxploitation movie (the first to feature a female protagonist) made a second-tier box office draw out of Grier, and it is not difficult to see why; just as Coffy uses her sexual wiles to outwit the various dumb thugs around her, so too did Grier make an impression on the film-going public by showcasing her considerable physical charm; Grier is an astonishingly sexy and curvaceous star, and she is certainly not shy about showcasing her most marketable assets here. In some ways this is a pity, as she is also an actress of remarkable talent and range, however as Lily Allen proclaimed recently, `I'll take my clothes off, and it will be shameless, but everyone knows that's how you get famous'; no doubt it was the same story back in 1973.
However, the character of Coffy's willingness to use sex in order to get her revenge on such a collection of scumbags is one of the film's less palatable themes; hailed by some critics as a logical example of a woman using every resource at her disposal to achieve success on a mission in which she would otherwise be totally powerless, Coffy's various sordid liaisons with the crooks seem to me nothing but contrivances designed to showcase Grier in the buff. Continuity-wise, the film leaves much to be desired, with a pre-credits sequence that has Coffy murdering a pair of dealers, even though her mission isn't actually established until her boyfriend is attacked some twenty minutes into the movie, and the film ends on a considerable downer that sits at odds with the salaciousness of the preceding action. Overall the movie really isn't particularly memorable; the best one can say about it is that it is marginally classier than Grier's other starring vehicles, such as Foxy Brown (a duller re-working of Coffy) and the dreary Get Carter rip-off Hit Man.
This seminal Blaxploitation movie (the first to feature a female protagonist) made a second-tier box office draw out of Grier, and it is not difficult to see why; just as Coffy uses her sexual wiles to outwit the various dumb thugs around her, so too did Grier make an impression on the film-going public by showcasing her considerable physical charm; Grier is an astonishingly sexy and curvaceous star, and she is certainly not shy about showcasing her most marketable assets here. In some ways this is a pity, as she is also an actress of remarkable talent and range, however as Lily Allen proclaimed recently, `I'll take my clothes off, and it will be shameless, but everyone knows that's how you get famous'; no doubt it was the same story back in 1973.
However, the character of Coffy's willingness to use sex in order to get her revenge on such a collection of scumbags is one of the film's less palatable themes; hailed by some critics as a logical example of a woman using every resource at her disposal to achieve success on a mission in which she would otherwise be totally powerless, Coffy's various sordid liaisons with the crooks seem to me nothing but contrivances designed to showcase Grier in the buff. Continuity-wise, the film leaves much to be desired, with a pre-credits sequence that has Coffy murdering a pair of dealers, even though her mission isn't actually established until her boyfriend is attacked some twenty minutes into the movie, and the film ends on a considerable downer that sits at odds with the salaciousness of the preceding action. Overall the movie really isn't particularly memorable; the best one can say about it is that it is marginally classier than Grier's other starring vehicles, such as Foxy Brown (a duller re-working of Coffy) and the dreary Get Carter rip-off Hit Man.
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Part Nurse, Part Killer, All Woman!
Coffy is just mindblowing. Pam Grier plays no nonsense Coffy who goes through mob boss to mob boss determined to wipe out the local drug trade after her sister becomes addicted to... Read more
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I have no idea how fast this was delivered cause I was on vacation at the time but the quality of the product is top notch
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Dont be fooled by the "blaxploitation/b-movie" genre classification of this seventies classic, there is so much more to this film than that and its not just Pam Griers "assets"... Read more
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