Cinnamon

2023

Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 86% · 7 reviews
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 725 725

Plot summary

Follows a struggling small-town gas station attendant and aspiring singer, Jodi Jackson, whose life is sent into a tailspin when there’s a robbery at work.

720p.WEB
815.58 MB
1280*692
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BudoSenpai

Good to see Pam Grier

This is a piece of a review from Tribeca Capsule Reviews - by Mike McGranaghan. "Here's yet another crime movie that unsuccessfully tries to emulate the style of Quentin Tarantino." This bs comment is getting so old already, it's like every time a film is made, particularly the ones that have Black lead actors they're accused of trying to emulate the thief himself, Quentin Tarantino.They said the same thing about, "The Harder They Fall". But they never mention how the biggest thief of all time had admitted to stealing in a 1994 interview with Empire magazine by saying, "I steal from every single movie ever made." And his visual references to other movies have become his trademark. But "they" don't have anything negative to say about that.So, if any other filmmaker does anything similar to what he has done, they have to be emulating after him. His style? Give me a break already with that bs! "Almost all of Tarantino's eight films have a main source for his thievery. For "Jackie Brown," it was the 1974 film "Foxy Brown." For "Kill Bill," the 1973 Japanese film "Lady Snowblood." And his "Inglourious Basterds" is, in a lot of ways, similar to the 1967 war film "The Dirty Dozen." So, who the hell would want to emulate after him!This is an entertaining film and it has nothing to do with, or was even made with the thief Tarantino in mind.
Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 4 / 10

Cinnamon

Directed and written by Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr., Cinnamon is all about Jodi (Hailey Kilgore), who starts the movie working in a gas station and dreaming of being a singer. A cowboy comes in and asks if he can use the bathroom, followed by a man in a motorcycle helmet who asks her to empty out the register. The cowboy tries to play hero and gets shot right in the face, spraying blood everywhere. As for the thief, he ends up being in Jodi's bathtub, because he's her boyfriend Eddie (David Iacono) who will do anything to make get her to Los Angeles.The problem? Her boss Wally (Damon Wayans) is in deep with a crime family led by Mama (Pam Grier) and one of their members is the cowboy who just bled out in Wally's gas station. That's when we realize that this movie may start in blacksploitation but will end up feeling like one of those Tarantino-style films that came out so often in the 90s.That's not a bad thing. Wayans is divisive in this, as you could see his over the top performance as the wrong note to strike in an otherwise dark drama. But it worked for me and it's always good to see him in a movie. Grier is great, communicating only through gesture and motion in this. She conveys that she's in charge and that you could pay the price for crossing her with just the simplest of looks.I'm not used to Tubi movies having budgets or casts like this, to be perfectly honest.
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