Huge Disappointment!

Rating: 2/10 (27 July 2014)

Before you get on my case about the director, I want to let you know that I'm a big Quentin Tarantino fan. I like Reservoir Dogs and I really love Pulp Fiction, so I had hopeful expectations prior to viewing this film. Sadly, I was very disappointed by what I saw.
Robert De Niro was a wasted talent who had no purpose to the story, the movie doesn't know what it wants to be, and Samuel L. Jackson doesn't make a convincing hustler. Does that mean I hate everything about this movie? Not necessarily. I like the direction, the dialog is smooth, and the production value is good, but I wanted more and the movie just didn't deliver. For example, there's a scene where the female lead is getting a bag full of money in a dressing room. It shows you this exact same scene from three different perspectives which was annoying and didn't move the plot forward. Tarantino did this method so well in Pulp Fiction, but that movie worked because of its non-linear structure. Here, its like Tarantino ran out of ideas on the way there and didn't know how to translate his vision.
Overall, this movie was a disappointment. It's unoriginal, the characters aren't interesting, and the whole thing is a convoluted mess. Spare yourself of Jackie Brown by seeing better movies of his than this inferior piece of garbage!