Tarantino's Plump Fiction

Rating: 5/10 (28 March 2006)

Tarantino's quirky characters and dialog can carry a film only so far. An interesting story with characters one cares about is missing here. Samuel L. Jackson does a decent imitation of his character in Pulp Fiction but lacks a John Travolta to play off of. Pam Grier is impressive looking but doesn't have the acting chops to carry a film. Robert Forester is solid but his character is a dullard. The main setting, a generic shopping mall, is as interesting as the mall in which I originally saw the film. And someone tell Tarantino if you're going to depict a scene from 3 different viewpoints, make sure the scene is worthy watching in the first place.