Jive Turkey's premise is established quickly and then the film putters around for an hour and a half. An Italian restaurateur named Tony who deals drugs is trying to get into business with a black guy named Pasha who is a bookie. Pasha's friend, Serene, offs Tony's bodyguard and now they're apparently at war. A lot of vague criminal business happens. There's a very tall, snappy fellow named Sweetman who collects the horse race money from the barber shop, an opium brothel, a pastor who cheats on his wife in the vestry. None of us really know what the point of any of this was. Our favorite characters were this group of five guys who would just randomly appear from an alley and swarm around one of our mains for no reason at all. Eventually we find out that there's a double agent working for Tony and a double agent working for the cops, who care about all of this for some reason that may have to do with a mayoral election? We aren't even sure where this film takes place, by the way, but the license plates all said Ohio. It turns out that Serene, the enthusiastic murderer, was the cop's plant, which we discover after watching her de-drag. Sweetman gets gunned down by Pasha's crew, and we managed to piece together that this was because he was Tony's plant. He was the real jive turkey all along. The film ends there with nothing really resolved.
We got a few laughs from a cameo from a boom mic and from Serene's murdering scenes, but overall this film was too incoherent and didn't have enough camp to really be fun.
Quote: "I've always been arrogant. It's my only fault."
Spoon Rating: 3
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