Starts slow, ends big

Rating: 8/10 (12 August 2004)

As I watched the start of this film I was pained because I thought I was going to be doomed to sit through two and a half hours of painful exploitation rip offs done in a "gee whiz look at me" style. Then some where about 45 minutes in this movie started to spark to life and it became a thrill ride to the blood soaked ending.
Far from a great film, this film is certainly a very guilty pleasure. Quentin Tarantino knows his schlock fodder enough to copy it down to its awful technical nature. This film gets so many of the grade Z movie styles right I became certain that Tarantino never went to school in his life, we must have been separated at birth.
If you like action, if you like exploitation, if you like movies, see this movie, its kick ass and lots of fun.
8 out of 10