'Sheba, Baby' (1975)
4/10
Last and Least of Pam Grier's Blaxploitation Vehicles
25 February 2019
Pam Grier in 'Jackie Brown' spends much of the film in a distinctive blue air stewardess's uniform, which may have been Tarantino's tribute to the blue flairs she wears for much of 'Sheba, Baby', which she swaps for a wicked blue wetsuit and machine gun in the movie's final quarter. Thus dressed to kill she actually proves disappointingly easy to overpower and disarm; and dishes out considerably less than in the earlier scene at a funfair which is probably the film's highlight (most of the killing at the climax is done by the cops).

The sexual content is also confined to just one rather chaste (if the word can be used in such a context) bed scene; and although the production values are good there's far too high a ratio of talk to action.
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