Terrific acting

Rating: 9/10 (9 February 2007)

I liked Michael Parks as the 80 year old retired pimp Esteban best of all here.
The guy can act. His motions, his accent, the movements of his head were worth seeing many times over.
Carradine's acting, voice were also very good.
Michael Madsen had his role of a lifetime in Donny Brasco. He was good here as a laidback, failing character.
To me the actress playing Kiddo is a tall skinny girl with a less than beautiful face. But she does her part well.
The only jarring note in the acting would be Samuel Jackson's overdone, campy attempt at acting in a bit part.
Am I wrong or is the movie about men "disciplining" their women?
1---Bill shoots Kiddo in the head because she dumped him.
2---Esteban says he doesn't agree with that and says Bill should have "cut her face." Then he calls over a girl of his with a face disfigured in such a way so Kiddo can see her.
3---The martial arts master (almost all the posters here are so clueless when it comes to martial arts they don't know there is much to be learned from those scenes) runs a non-stop disciplining of Kiddo.
There are two somewhat lengthy scenes involving food prepartion:
1--Bud prepares the drinks for himself and Elle.
2--Bill prepares the sandwich.