JasparLamarCrabb A powerhouse performance by Pam Grier emerges from director Jack Hill's revenge thriller. Grier is a nurse bent on obliterating the drug pushers, pimps and crooked politicians responsible for getting her kid sister hooked on junk. The hokey dialog and noble underpinnings of the plot are easy to take given the exciting action packed into this film by Hill. It's all played out to a pulse pounding funk score by Roy Ayers. Grier gives a gutsy performance and the supporting cast includes William Elliott as a good cop, Booker Bradshaw as very bad politician as well as Robert DoQui as "King George," a very flamboyant and very badly dressed drug pusher/pimp. Alan Arbus is a sleazy businessman with a lot of fetishes. The great Sid Haig is Omar. The cinematography is by Paul Lohmann, who went on to shoot some of the best films of Robert Altman and Mel Brooks!

utgard14 Pam Grier plays a nurse named Coffy who goes undercover to take out the drug dealers who got her sister hooked. Sexy, violent, gritty blaxploitation classic. Pam Grier in all her glory is reason alone to check this one out. Sid Haig is one of the bad guys and is amusing in a scummy sort of way. The cheesetastic songs ("Coffy, baby, sweet as a chocolate bar") are great. Love the cat fights! Lots of violence, coarse language, and nudity. Most of this is good fun but the death of one character in particular, a pimp named King George, is pretty rough to watch. Still, it's a good one. This would make my short list of must-see blaxploitation films, for sure.

PassPopcorn One of Quentin Tarantino's favourite grindhouse movies, Coffy is a great example of blaxploitation film – a genre that emerged in the USA in the 1970s, created specifically for black people, that featured black casts and funk and soul soundtracks. It was a box-office hit and Pam Grier became the first female African-American protagonist of an action movie.Flower Child Coffin (Pam Grier), also known as Coffy, is a nurse whose little sister's life has been ruined by heroin. In the first scenes, Coffy finds the dealers who got her sister hooked on heroin and, pretending to be willing to do anything for a fix, goes home with them and kills them. Later in the movie, when two masked men beat up and seriously injure her police friend Carter in his home, while she's present, because he wouldn't be bribed, she decides to avenge him.Even though the main character fights what we could call a war against drugs, the movie's message isn't "you shouldn't do drugs". As I said before, this is a blaxploitation movie – a movie that exploits certain themes. The story itself isn't very relevant. It's all about watching Coffy, often naked, getting her revenge by killing people and fighting other, often naked, women. And it is Coffy – or better, Pam Grier – who leads the movie. She is great in her performance, and truly believable: whenever men fall for her, it's obviously because of her beauty and charms – she is sexy and she knows it, and she uses these qualities to get what she wants. Also, her relationship with her sister isn't developed at all, but we still take her (Coffy's) side in her fighting the drug bosses, again because of her amazing performance.Of course, this isn't an excellent movie, but you shouldn't expect much from the exploitation genre. It's just meant to entertain: it makes people laugh – like in this movie, when Coffy gets in a fight with some hookers and throws a bowl of salad onto one girl's head -, shocks – the best example being the killing of a man by tying a noose around his neck, attaching the rope to a car and dragging him around town -, and features a lot of female nudity; but it has many flaws – to give just one example, some of the supporting actors' performances are bad, but in a funny way, and the movie is sometimes boring. So if you're looking for a somewhat silly movie that will mostly make you laugh and make you ask yourself "the hell am I watching?", Coffy is the one for you!Rating: 7/10 Read more at http://passpopcorn.wordpress.com/

Lucien Lessard Coffy (Pam Grier) is a nurse by day and avenging sexy woman at night. Coffy is bringing justice for the drug pushers, who nearly killed her young sister (Karen Williams) on drug abuse and beating up badly her police friend (William Elliot). She becomes an one-woman war on organized crime on Los Angeles.Written and Directed by Jack Hill (The Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage, Foxy Brown) made an entertaining, action-thriller with sense of humour. Grier is fun to watch as the title character, she has some great dialogue and of course, she has an great body (Which she does appear topless at times). It is amusing to see Robert DoQui, who is best known for the "RoboCop Trilogy" as a pimp! and Sid Haig (House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects) as a low-life criminal.DVD has an fine non-anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) transfer and an decent Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Sound. DVD has an fairly interesting commentary by the writer/director of the film and original theatrical trailer is also included. "Coffy" was an big hit back in 1973. Grier is certainly one of the sexy black woman's out there, certainly back in the 1970's, she was absolutely stunning. "Coffy" does have some flaws but it is an trashy enjoyable action flick to watch. (*** ½/*****).