Coffy (1973)

Killer Coffy
All the good I'd read about this flick is true. This one really smokes. Great action/ fight scenes and Pam Grier is one helluva woman. Highly recommended.

One vengeful sista'.
Pam Grier was one tough cookie in this classic 70's drama. I wouldn't have wanted her to come looking for me if i was a drug dealer. The way she blew that pimp's face off with that shot gun early on in the movie was real gangsta. Boy, somebody shouldn't have never gave her little sister drugs. This is if not her best movie in my opinion. I also loved Foxy Brown and Friday Foster as well.

Coffy
This movie is one of the first big movies
of the Blaxploitation "movement." It's
also the one that made Pam Grier a household
name. Originally, this movie was created as box-office competiton
for "Cleopatra Jones," but what resulted was a soul cinema
classic for the ages.

As always, the plot is simple. Pam Grier plays a nurse whose
young sister suffers a near fatal overdose thanks to a
local pusher. Coffy's reaction (in grand Blaxploitation style)
is to eliminate the pusher and everyone in proximity to him.
She resorts to various means to infiltrate the
system, locate the main culprits, and dispose of them with
a firey vengeance. We're taken on an entertaining blood ride
of costumes, clever weaponry, cat fights, and colorful accents
(one of the highlights is Grier's totally unconvincing Jamaican
accent, which dies away before the end of the scene and is never
heard from again. LOL. I'm pretty sure the director was thinking that Pam Grier in a bikini
is convincing enough to sell sun tan lotion to an Eskimo ). The customary nudity, too, is well displayed.

This film is a great time. I highly recommend it.
The standard blaxploitation disclaimer must be given: If you're looking
for profound, thought provoking cinema, keep looking. If you're
in the market for a good time, Coffy's the gal for you.