Good starts don't make good finishes

Rating: 7/10 (30 September 2001)

Damn, I am really ashamed of what I will have to say. But it's a fact. Man, we could have a new "Desperado", we cold have another gun-slinger jewel from Robert Rodriguez. But this isn't so. Because of half an hour of disappointment. I will just say this, the movie is truly great until they get into that damn bar. Then it's just downhill, and I wonder why script-writer Tarantino did it like so. Because the movie is too cool from the start. Brothers Seth and Richie Gecko are famous bank-robbers and are on the run. They are responsible for a truck-load of deaths, and they have to escape. They choose the family of priest Jacob Fuller to accomplish it. The showcase of Tarantinian trademark dialogue is genius, with many fantastic dialogue to show in the respective quote section. As I said before, the movie is really a great movie until they get to that bar, where all hell breaks loose (literally). The makers of this movie should really have a fetish for B-Movies, since all I can say is that they really made it like so, and I am talking about everything, even the special effects. You'll see for yourself, but you are warned: when they cross that door, the movie gets really B-Grade, and never recovers. A half-disappointment, half-novelty item, on the first project between pals Rodriguez and Tarantino.