A sort-of sequel Coffy with Pam Grier back as a hot black chick out for revenge under the direction of Jack Hill. Instead of being motivated by a drug addict sister (she does have a druggie brother but he’s totally unsympathetic) she’s out to get revenge on behalf of her murdered boyfriend (Terry Carter – Colonel Tigh from the first incantation of Battlestar Galactica). So she goes undercover as – what else? - a call girl. (Coffy was a nurse but Foxy Brown isn’t given a job.)
There’s a great credit sequence with Pam Grier dancing along to the terrific Willie Hutch theme song. Its reminiscent of James Bond movies and so is this film, with its sexy superhero and outlandish villains (one of whom even has a swivel chair). It is still 70s in some unpleasant ways, including the throat cutting of a naked woman.
Grier is fantastic value, all big afro, massive boobs and attitude. She shoots at her brother, beats up a bunch of lesbians in a barroom brawl (a another great Jack Hill girl on girl fight), various gangsters, etc. She also gets tortured and raped but manages to triumph by bringing in some black revolutionaries who help her castrate one of the baddies. Full on! Then Foxy delivers the dick in a pickle jar to the girlfriend of said baddy. Fuller on!
The audio commentary by Jack Hill is interesting – particularly as Hill seems bitter about his cavalier treatment by AIP. (Though to be fair he does admit some things he didn’t have control over and was opposed to at the time – clothes, music – he says really works.) He also complains about the fact the success of this and Coffy didn’t turn him into a hot property in Hollywood, partly because the films were dismissed as “black films”. (At the end of the commentary he says he’s doing what he really wants to do now – which is develop romantic comedies!) I'm surprised that Hill's career didn't kick on after the mid 70s, even if only as a script writer (most of his films had very strong stories and were full of great scenes and images); maybe he just got jack.
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