1973 · blaxploitation · action · spy
Cleopatra Jones
Directed by Jack Starrett1h 29m1973
After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her.
Our read: Cleopatra Jones (1973) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded blaxploitation · action · spy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured blaxploitation / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
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