visual, but no story

Rating: 3/10 (6 November 2003)

Of course I was also curious by the new movie of Tarentino. After his movies
Pulp Fiction that was innovating, From Dusk Till Dawn, that was great by visual effects and surprising, Jacky Brown, that was sober but good my tensions were high. Unfortunately I must say I was disappointed. First there was a thin, or rather no story, it was obviously made for the visual effects. No problem, I also like movies with great visuals, but also on this point I think it wasn't very good. In the beginning you think: 'that's great, that's funny', but after seeing the same tricks again and again it started to be silly. Normally a strong point of Tarentino are the conversations, but in this movie they miss the sharpness and strength. Another thing disturbing for me was the music. It started also beautifully with the opening song, but after that it became worse and worse with the climax the pan flute muzak that was not funny. Strange thing was that the RZA had a big hand in it because you could have expected some quality from his hand after for
example Ghost Dog, the way of the samoerai. Funny I have to think about this
movie of Jim Jarmush, because it also handles about fighting art, but this movie that is much more sober, has a story, a point and an atmosphere that is
authentic. That is I think the problem with this new movie of Tarentino, It misses the sharpness and strong authenticity I'm used when I look at his movies. This movie is entertainment, nothing more and maybe less. I'm afraid I will forget this movie soon, but I hope and will be sure that he will make new movies what will contain the sharpness i like