Different but great!

Rating: 9/10 (26 January 2005)

Anyone who has seen the Kill Bill movies can understand Tarrantino's style. This one has a series of stories, some of them related and most of them with John Travolta. One of my favorites involves Travolta and Samuel L Jackson who shoot a guy in their car. They need to clean themselves up and get rid of the "mess." Enter Harvey Keitel as a take charge kind of guy who approaches the problem like a swat team giving everybody orders of what to do, how to do it, and how long each step will take.
Another tale involves Bruce Willis trying to guard a watch that was handed down from his grandfather to his father and then preserved by his father's friend (Christopher Walken) in his rectum during internment at a POW camp. Willis trying to get the watch back gets into a big fight with a crime boss and while they are fighting they are captured by sex fiends for torturous games.
The movie breaks all rules and like Blue Velvet, is like no other movie I have seen before. I have seen the movie 4 times and seem to pick up something new about it each time I see it.