Veyr good, extremely violent

Rating: 8/10 (27 May 2007)

Tarantino is once again at his strongest in this genre' of action and reaction movies. The martial arts fighting - absolutely essential to this genre' - I found to be believable (I know no martial arts - I'm just saying I was convinced the fighting was real). (Many times - MANY - times in scifi's the science is so loonie that there is no point in watching. Science is to scifi's as authentic looking fighting is to a Tarantino movie. However, the acting was unconvincing. I saw Ulma Thurman and knew it was her the whole time - same for the other actors. 8 out of 10.
...sans Michael Parks as 'Estabon' - I was mesmerized by this Spanish gentleman of leisure who scared me in my chair. I was scared - he was so calm and pleasant and yet there was a cauldron of aggression just sitting tranquilly waiting to be disturbed so it could explode ("esplode" as Estaban might say it) on another helpless human... Estabon scared me... THEN I saw the credits and thought to myself: "It was Michael Parks?!?" He should win an Oscar for best actor! (I was amazed even more when the western style sheriff who investigates the Pine Church massacre in KB:V.1 turns out to be Parks as well.) Now if that range and depth of acting doesn't win an award... then the academy needs to reevaluate its assessment technique. Parks was brilliant! He was so good I thought that this guy is too real - he is too scary - he has got to be caste from off the street! Michael Parks gets a 20 out of 10; 4 thumbs up; A+++; major plus superlative kudos. I love this guy! He was so awesome!
-LD
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