Depressingly vicious story about violent criminals

Rating: 6/10 (17 March 2002)

Ok, Tarrantino's films are exceptionally well made. This one too. But I have to say I didn't like it very much.
Like Pulp Fiction this film has some wonderful dialog. It was the promise of that, that attracted me to it in the first place. (So, clearly I saw this second.) However, unlike Pulp Fiction, you are not left with warm and uplifting memories of delightful, witty conversations at the end, instead the movie leaves you depressed and feeling sick at having just witnessed humanity pretty close to its worst. The unnecessarily vicious scenes of violence and endless ranting of angry men screaming at each other are what you take away from this film.
If that's your idea of a good night out, you'll watch this and enjoy it. For me it was too bleak, too depressing. There was just not enough positive stuff to outweigh the negative.
I loved Pulp Fiction but this was just too bloody horrible to be enjoyable for me
Algis Kuliukas