Brilliant. Unique. Ultimately very sad.

Rating: 10/10 (17 June 2019)

Haven't seen this since it first came out. Loved it then. Loved it even more now. But it was so, so sad watching it. Little violence. Little action. But unbelievably good acting and powerful characters like in no other QT movie. I mean it was like the acting olympics. Pam Grier. From blaxploitation films? Who knew this woman was such a phenomenal actress. Sam Jackson? Always good. Sometimes very good. But here? He IS Ordell. About as real a portrayal as ever put on film. How bout DeNiro? Playing totally and utterly against type in one of the great actors greatest performances. And Robert Forster? Who the hell is this dude? Just sublime here as the quintessential competent man. QT is unworldly awesome drawing out these performances, weaving them together into an entirely character driven, utterly believable drama.
But why oh why has QT never made another good film? Why did he not build on this great movie. Why has he steeped every future film in blood and gore and stupid plots with pathetically cardboard characters, weak cartoonish scripts. . Lazy. The man simply rested on his laurels and never used his world class talent again. It is so sad as there have been none like him. No one, in the past twenty years, who really was as good. Yet we were never allowed to see anything but tiny little glimpses of the genius director ever again.