A curiosity

Rating: 6/10 (28 October 2003)

I watched with curiosity. This film is really just a comedy. But I only sniggered about 2 times. Some of Tarantinos jokes fell very flat on the audience I was watching with. Some of the jokes were purile and adolesent. But as it's rated 18 here in the UK, there won't be any 14 year-olds in the theatre to appreciate them.
I enjoyed some of the sequences - particularly the anime. The end snow scene. The big fight - which is basically a ballet with severed limbs. Impressive. The occasional little quirk here and there.
But overall the dialogue was bad to terrible (I don't care if it's intentional), there was almost NO story to speak of, what there was was utterly predictable, and the pace of the movie frequently dragged.
Watching this was like watching someone else play a video game. I was completely detached.
Not a masterpiece by any means. But, like rummaging through a magpie's nest, I wondered what I'd find next - something old and shiny and valuable, or just a dirty beer-bottle top.