2 movies, 2 ratings, spoiler in last paragraph

Rating: 6/10 (15 April 2007)

Rodriguez's feature I rate 4 --- Tarantino's feature I rate 8
Rodriguez finds gore amusing, unfortunately the feature had no story to tell, the actors are completely non-compelling, the action was below average, and the storyline had absolutely nothing original. I preferred his first works over his later works. The feature reminded me in many ways of From Dusk til Dawn, which is one of my worst movies ever.
Tarantino's great talent is to portray violent death with artistry and originality. He does not fail in this aspect here. However the entire first half of his feature lacked interest. Russel's character is not really explored and the stars of the feature only come into play in the second half of the feature. The result is we get to to know a set of characters, who are artfully killed off, and then they're gone. Then the stars come into the story, and from then on the feature gets much more active and interesting, however coming too quickly to an beautiful boiling point ending which really rocks!