Fresh and Flavorful

Rating: 9/10 (6 July 2013)

Influential and inventive this was so fresh and new in Style that it caught Viewers and Critics off guard and aghast and they hardly knew what to say. That never could be said about the Maverick Writer/Director Quentin Tarantino.
His Films, to this day, are driven by words. His dialog flows fluently and without restraint dominating Scenes creating sometimes unbearable Suspense that usually leads to Violent eruptions of varying degree.
This, his second Feature, is not without moments of self-indulgence that threaten to bore or at the very least are unnecessary. The Wordsmith sometimes is guilty of just a bit too much Ego. Here there are scenes that are clunky, embarrassing, and absolutely could be excised without loss.
The bedroom scene with Bruce Willis and Friend comes to mind. The final third of the Bondage/Rape Scene just talks way too long. The watch as heirloom Scene with the young Butch is clunky. The Director's Cameo as Jimmy is quite bad and reeks of overWriting (gourmet coffee), and bad Acting. Maybe a few others. But these are minor extensions of good Scenes that are to be critical, bloated.
But that hardly keeps this from being an exercise in Style and a completely New Wave of making Movies. It is sharp and serpentine, colorful and Cool. There is a youthful, playful energy that was lacking at the time in Filmmaking that was forever stimulated and forced on to a new path of Artistic Angst. For that this will be remembered as not just a Fad, but put a new Face on Film that is needed now and then to shake things up.