A letdown

Rating: 8/10 (2 December 2003)

It's difficult for me to judge this movie. Did I like it? Yes. Is it a "good" movie? No. I really liked "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs". Not very sure about "Jackie Brown". And "From Dusk Till Down" may be one of my all time favorites (directed by Robert Rodriguez, tough). But where does this movie fails? The problem is that it looks like a random mix of fight scenes taken from really bad Hong-Kong movies. The blood and guts look so fake and so funny that it can only be taken as a tribute to Monty Phyton's "Holy Grail". The plot, if any, is so narrow that we don't even know who those people are or why they are fighting about. I got tired of the action with no plot and my girlfriend got sick of watching that blinded violence. In the end, the film does not leave you anything.
But why did I like it? Because it entertained me a lot. Because is a non-stop action movie. But, then again, a lot of b-class movies did the same. So, I will watch the second part; but for Tarantino this is his worst movie to date.