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Rating: 4/10 (29 July 2004)

A note of reality to any film fan planning seeing this - its awful
It isn't cool, the dialogue is awful, there's way too many cameos, its awkwardly directed, it doesn't gel or flow, it (at best) mimics the style of martial arts films, it has no charm.
After an hour I ceased to take it in. it takes a really bad film to break my concentration, but I found myself thinking 'this is REALLY stupid' I mean DUMB. Its a big dumb film.
Now I did enjoy Tarantinos previous films, but this is just a big self-indulgent mess. Its obvious he has nothing to say anymore.
I honestly felt I'd wasted 2 hours. No emotional reaction apart from a resigned cry of 'pointless!'.