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Cleopatra Jones
(1973)
Director: Jack Starrett
Starring: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Shelley Winters
our comment. "...with an afro the size of a weather balloon..."
A Turkish poppy field is torched, and a U.S. drug trafficker known as Mommy is feeling pretty burned. She orders a retaliation raid on an inner-city antidrug headquarters. Mommy might next want to dial 911. Because now she'll have to mess with special agent Cleopatra Jones, the drug traffickers' deadliest and most beautiful enemy.

Any other criminal in the world would laugh their ass off being chased by a kung-fu fighting supermodel, but in the world of movies anything is possible.

Good for some cheap laughs, but pretty routine stuff. Co-starring Antonio Fargas who went on to play Huggy Bear in Starsky & Hutch.

Investigation finished: 2001-01-02

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Story: 3/10 - If you can swallow a large lump of nonsense, you might be able to find a story somewhere.

Acting: 2/10 - Not for one second do you believe that Ms. Dobson knows anything about martial arts, and Shelley Winters overacts as usual???

Violence: 3/10 - PG-rated, comic book stuff.

Nudity: 0/10 - Zzzz...

Coolness: 7/10 - Tamara Dobso is a 6'2" (she's fucking tall) supermodel with an afro the size of a weather balloon, and the soundtrack features Joe Simon and Millie Jackson.

Skid-marks: 6/10 - Features a semi-cool car chase between some bad guys and Tamara in her customized black Corvette.

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