All style, no substance

Rating: 3/10 (26 February 2005)

It is very stylish to sit around and have long discussions with someone you are about to try and kill... not very practical, but stylish. It is very stylish to research what kind of snake to use to kill someone with, and then to sit down calmly and explain to the dying victim why you chose that particular kind of snake... not very practical, not very believable, but very very stylish. It is not very practical to bury someone alive, and quite impossible to dig yourself out once buried... but, very very very stylish. Of course master Pai teaches no one the secret 5 pressure point punch... was there anyone watching the movie that didn't know exactly how Bill was going to die at that point? I could have wrote the last scene right then, right down to him dropping on his fifth step. How nice they had a few moments to express their admiration for one another before Bill took his last walk.
I guess QT is an acquired taste, and I haven't got it yet. How wonderful for those fans of his that can be entertained by virtually no plot, and no drama. Even after he splits one movie into two movies and uses the clips off the cutting room floor. Maybe for his next movie, he won't have any plot at all. Just some random scenes of people being really cool... yeah... I smell an Oscar!