misdirected director

Rating: Null/10 (6 May 2003)

This film is slow beyond belief.The first hour drags like summer.I know were supposed to learn about the characters and how they interact and about their motavations but the conversations between them are dull and pointless you end up complety losing interest.Their are your typical tarintnio scences invovling extreme violence which mark the film from being a complete disaster.Fonda and jackson give good performances bearing the material on hand.The biggest crime though in this mess is to cast one of the greatest actors ever(bob de niro) and then hardly use the guy.The extras get more lines than de niro and you wonder what was the point of casting him.I view this film as a experiment tarintnio wanted to do a elmore leonard book transfer and he has.He was limited with the source material so i will give him one more chance.The chance when kill bill is released in october/november