Nice one Bros

Rating: 8/10 (24 January 2008)

Wonderful. Wonderful, and surely a great film. Support me here. Some films I think it's just me, but this was classic.
But why? Short scenes? Not the annoying pop-video rapid cut. Not the pretentious lingering shots. But each one a gem.
Daylight, by and large. None of those ridiculous scenes where someone is alone in the office/warehouse/spaceship and decides to conserve energy by working with only a desk light. Come on! Familiarity? The Barton Fink corridors. The Fargo fence. Oh, Brother  the landscape. (Was that a reverse angle Ethan Hawke?) Familiarity? It took me a while to warm to Terminator  but that was Sci-Fi. Much of the same mindless violence here, but exactly that. A psychopath, rather than a macho hero. Yet still able to patch himself up with a needle and thread! And team that with Pulp Fiction  yes, it's up there. I can't recall another film where the thrills are so perfectly timed and executed that I spent the whole couple of hours with an idiotic grin an my face. "That was funny wasn't it? I don't want to think too much about the gore".
Did I mention Pulp Fiction? OK. Not quite. No surreal story thread. But pretty damn close.
Ron Plasma (Viewed 23Jan08)