Brilliant bits floating in a Bloated sloppy mess

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2004)

Quentin's 2-part return to Pulp Fiction Land is a sloppy mess of excess and dead space. The filmmaker has obviously bought entirely into the Boosheet that everything he touches is golden, and therefore he cranked out two bloated flicks instead of one good one. It's as though he figured, Why wait until the 2-disc Special Edition DVD to show my fans all the parts I cut out in order to make a single, coherent, compelling film--I'll just leave every little thing I shot in right up front! Or perhaps the Weinsteins figured two new Tarantino flicks would make more than one, seeing as how it takes him so long to crank one out these days. In either case, I was sporadically entertained by the two films, but annoyed and saddened as well, because I could see a really great film hiding under all the excess footage and slop. Quenting needs to grow up and realize that Jackie Brown was by far his best film--because it had a story! Quentin has good stories in him, too--he just doesn't have the guts to tell them anymore when he knows all his fanboys really want is violence and pop culture references.
Sad.