As far as blaxsploitation movies or action movies with a female lead, Coffy is by far one of the best. Pam Grier sets the screen on fire as Coffy, a working class black woman(a nurse) who is on a mission to take down the drug syndicate due to her kid sister's life is ruined by drugs. Writer/director Jack Hill did not have the largest budget to work with. However, Coffy is actually a well made film with rich dialogue and is taken more seriously than a lot of films of this type during this period. The film is very entertaining as well with some tongue in cheek humor, action and serious boobage. To see Pam Grier's rack alone is worth the price of admission. Nonetheless, Pam's unique presence and performance here is second to none. She is a stunning dark skinned goddess that is equally capable of being seductive and kicking ass. Not knowing any martial arts, she uses her wits and her sexuality to dispatch her male adversaries and comes across very natural and convincing. Coffy, very much a vigilante film, predates Deathwish by a year. I think that this is equally as good as Michael Winner/Charles Bronson's classic. Also, frequent Pam Grier/Jack Hill collaborator Sid Haig makes a memorable appearance as an Armenian heavy. He also has great chemistry with Pam and appears again with her in Foxy Brown. Foxy Brown, also directed by Jack Hill is great as well. However, it is not quite as well made as this is and Coffy by far is Pam Grier's best film and essential watching for fans of 70's action cinema.

Foxy Brown, the unofficial sequel to Coffy, might be slightly better known thanks to Quentin Tarantino's reference-tastic Jackie Brown (also starring Pam Grier), but it can't hold a candle to this Blaxploitation classic. Jack Hill's 1973 original is so spirited, passionate, and deliberately daft that it's impossible not to be persuaded by its cool and its convictions. Grier is the titular "wild cat from the tropical jungle", spitting her lines with thrilling viciousness, and wielding a gaze that promises pain. Yet Coffy isn't cold and immune, she's emotionally sensitive. Sentimental, even. She's also smart, confident, principled, and outrageously sexy. Choice theme lyric: "Coffee is the colour of your skin." Yes, the movie is fantastically dated; a true product of its era. It's lurid and ridiculous, yet boldly progressive. Other mainstream movies of the time might give us black pimps and junkies, but here we have black cops and surgeons, and it's the lascivious whites who run amok.Coffy is a nurse. She wants revenge on the perps responsible for her little sister's drug addiction. She starts with the pushers but gradually she finds the rot goes all the way to the top: to the politicians who want to keep the common man (and woman) down, and who are just in it for the "green". It's a conveyor belt of sin controlled by men. So Coffy preys on male vulnerability – specifically the sexuality of men, via her own seductive powers. In observing this sordid sacrifice, does the film indulge the very misogyny it purports to condemn? Here lies the essence of the exploitation genre: in exploiting, it explores, and in exploring, it exploits. Coffy isn't a complex or subtle film. For a start, it's laughably moralistic about drug abuse. Saying that, there is some simplistic wisdom in its depiction of the drugs hierarchy: the real problem is at the top, not on the streets. In Coffy's world, it's all about the System, and ultimately it's a System presided over by evil white men. One couldn't argue that a girl-fight in which every combatant has her top ripped off is clever satire; but at other times the satire does stick, such as when councilman Brunswick (Booker Bradshaw) slams the white patriarchy... and is immediately told off-camera by his honky PR man that he came off as "real convincing". This is a great sub-plot, wisely promoted to the main game by the final reel, leading to a tense final showdown which cautions as to the dangers of playing a System that itself corrupts its players. The ending is also a fitting moment of gender reassertion, before we're given a classic final shot. With fabulously far-fetched plotting married to a knowing sense of humour (Coffy's Jamaican act is a keeper), punctuated by tub-thumping speeches and spasms of deeply significant violence (thugs beating a black cop; a "lynching"; a shotgun castration), Coffy is a hugely enjoyable and meaning-packed movie, and a milestone in black cinema.

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.

After witnessing the devastating effects heroin has on her younger sister, "Coffy" (Pam Grier) is determined to do something about the illegal drug trade which is wrecking havoc in her city. So, rather than leave justice to the corrupt politicians and police she decides to take matters into her own hands. One of her main targets is a drug dealer and pimp named "King George" (Robert DoQui) who is almost always surrounded by a bevy of young women. Anyway, rather than disclose any of the intimate details I will just say that this is probably one of the better blaxploitation films of the 70's. While it certainly doesn't have the popularity or notoriety of films like "Shaft" or "Superfly" it manages to hold its own considering the relatively small budget it had to work with. Likewise, because of the trendy nature of blaxploitation films made during this period it is clearly dated and suffers from jargon and fashions that have long since gone out of style. Even so, Pam Grier is exciting to watch under almost any circumstances and she doesn't disappoint this time either. Slightly above average.