Coffy is a classic low budget blaxploitation revenge flick. You can tell how Quentin Tarantino would be mesmerised by such as a Grindhouse type picture and the audience will be mesmerised by Pam Grier who certainly lays out her assets bare.
Grier plays Coffy, a regular nurse with a boyfriend who is climbing the greasy political ladder. However her younger sister fell prey to drug addiction and she is out to get revenge but wants the kingpin not the minnows.
The film has all the beats of revenge pictures. Coffy is doing well at first gaining vengeance but the tables soon turn as she is becomes a damsel in distress and then finds herself betrayed.
Grier is sensational in her role. Sexy, tough and also vulnerable. Robert DoQui has a whale of a time as the super-pimp King George and Sidney Haig is sleazy henchman with the hots for Coffy.
The film might now look dated yet its oddly progressive. Apart from an aspiring black politician, there is black cop, an old mate of Coffy who refuses to go on the take and puts his life at risk.
There are better known revenge films from that era such as Death Wish. This is still a classic of its kind.
Grier plays Coffy, a regular nurse with a boyfriend who is climbing the greasy political ladder. However her younger sister fell prey to drug addiction and she is out to get revenge but wants the kingpin not the minnows.
The film has all the beats of revenge pictures. Coffy is doing well at first gaining vengeance but the tables soon turn as she is becomes a damsel in distress and then finds herself betrayed.
Grier is sensational in her role. Sexy, tough and also vulnerable. Robert DoQui has a whale of a time as the super-pimp King George and Sidney Haig is sleazy henchman with the hots for Coffy.
The film might now look dated yet its oddly progressive. Apart from an aspiring black politician, there is black cop, an old mate of Coffy who refuses to go on the take and puts his life at risk.
There are better known revenge films from that era such as Death Wish. This is still a classic of its kind.