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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 11444
Released: March 30, 1999 |
| Our Price: $2.99 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
SHE'S TEN MILES OF BAD ROAD FOR EVERY HOOD IN TOWN!
Description of Cleopatra Jones:
Special agent Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson), six feet two inches of sinewy fighting fury clad in layers of runway chic fashions in bright rainbow colors, strolls up a sand dune and orders the destruction of a Turkish poppy field. Thousands of miles away, an L.A. drug lord named Mommy (Shelley Winters hamming it up with garish wigs and lecherous leers) screeches as her life blood burns away and lures Cleopatra stateside to plot her demise. A product of the "blaxploitation" explosion of low-budget thrillers featuring black heroes in the 1970s, Cleopatra Jones may not be the best of the batch but revels in the most outrageous fashion sense. Cleo looks great in furs, pantsuits, ponchos, turbans--a new outfit every scene--and drives a sleek black Corvette with a personalized license plate: "CLEO." It's a shame that the producers dropped the exotic potential of a globetrotting super-agent for an L.A.-bound gangster film, which is entertaining in a comic-book way but rarely reaches the energetic levels of the gritty Pam Grier action pictures Coffy and Foxy Brown. Bernie Casey is a role model of dignity and action as a neighborhood activist, and a garishly overdressed Antonio Fargas delivers a suitably flamboyant performance as Mommy's pusher Doodlebug. The glamorous super-agent flew off to Hong Kong for the 1975 sequel, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold. --Sean Axmaker
Cleopatra Jones Reviews:
Cleopatra Jones-Awesome Corvette! 
2009-06-06 - I don't recall where I saw this movie, But I remember the Action and Driving Sequence and the Really Tricked out Corvette! It's a Must See for me!
OLD SCHOOL!
2008-12-14 - You have to be old school to watch this, but this is a wonderful product, only for the old school die heart.
grade A black exploitation
2008-12-02 - Everything in this movie puts it above most black action films of the 70's. The fight scenes are very well choreographed(with some great slo-mo), The actors and dialog are damn good mostly with the police cheif, mommy, and Bill Mckinney(from deliverance) having the best lines. The drug pushers and pimps are not "super cool" here and get what's coming to them and jones has no sympathy for them either. The film's decent budget provides for some great widescreen photography, car chases, explosions, and bloody gun battles. Tamara Dobson impresses by getting her point accross without calling everyone a bitch or MFer throughout the whole movie(a real woman).
BAD MOMMY ! 
2008-11-09 - The 1970's gave rise to the female Blaxploitation cinema creating many cult favorites like Coffy, TNT Jackson, Get Christie Love and Cleopatra Jones. The allure of "Cleopatra Jones" was that once again the studio cast a beautiful black woman in the role of the heroine at a time when there were only a few black women who had successfully pulled it off while starring in the leading role. Several actresses in the 1970's such as Pam Grier, Theresa Graves, Playboy Playmate Jeanne Bell all proved they could carry a film and entertain an audience and Tamara Dobson was no exception.
While on assignment in Turkey "Cleopatra Jones" orders the destruction of a poppy field with a street value of 30 million dollars seriously hurting the drug traffic trade and Mommy's drug business back home. Hearing of this devastating news "Mommy" sets out to even the score with Cleopatra for good. Mommy with the help of some dirty cops orders a raid at an inner-city drug centre in order to get Cleopatra back home so she can eliminate her, or so she hopes. Upon Cleopatra's arrival home and a failed attempt by Mommy's stooges to kill her at the airport she learns of the raid and sets out to take down the people responsible by any means necessary and destroy "Mommy" in the process.
Looking ultra fantastic in everything she wore Tamara Dobson the six foot two inch beauty / former model portrayed a squeaky clean government agent named "Cleopatra Jones" who kicked butt and looked great while doing it. Cleopatra drove a sleek black and very menacing looking Corvette with a personalized license plate "CLEO". The corvette also came complete with an arsenal of weapons neatly tucked away and a modified roof for the six foot two inch beauty as she set out in style to take down the local drug trafficker known as "Mommy" played by (Shelley Winters) and put her out of commission once and for all.
Warner Brothers have done a decent job with this DVD release providing a really nice wide screen video transfer. The film still contains some minor debris and blemishes but nothing to take away from the overall enjoyment of the movie. The film also benefits from a first rate musical score by jazz arranger J.J. Johnson. He manages to create a soulful but stylish 70's funky sound that comes across clear and crisp on my sound system. All we need now is "Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold" on DVD.
R.I.P. Tamara Dobson
Next to foxxy cleopatra jones got it my girl for life
2007-09-17 - I was a little girl my dad used to take me to the movies and she's the bomb. Plus I got the poster after they took the movie off. To put something else on. Rest in peace Tamara Dobson you #1.
