I generally like Tarantino.

Rating: 3/10 (3 January 2020)

Pulp Fiction is an easy 10/10 for me, as are Kill Bill vol. 1 and Inglourious Basterds, but this movie is just irredeemably dull. I don't know whether the film gets any better, I don't care if it does. Movies like Mean Machine are dull to start with too, but at least not detrimentally so, so when that movie turned out to have one of the greatest climaxes I've ever seen, it managed to pull itself up two marks, but if after 20 minutes I'm left skimming through chapters not even caring about story while I'm looking for at least a good action scene then a movie has failed me. I don't know. Maybe I had high expectations, considering I've very recently watched both Pan's Labyrinth and Grave Of The Fireflies very recently, but then again, Mean Machine. At least movies like Battle Royale II have serviceable action (and hilariously bad acting, an area which I will give Reservoir Dogs praise for - the acting is great, be it because the entire cast are accomplished actors) between the sections of boredom. It doesn't even make good background sound, lest I want to be pouted with ni**er every other second. I don't see how you can stick with this movie at all. Now, it doesn't deserve anything lower than 3/10, that's designated for particularly diabolical pieces of media, like Fred or Jeff Dunham. It doesn't deserve anything higher, either, though. It's a shame when you end up feeling that £1 was a ripoff.