Does Tarantino's involvement require weak duologue and plot?

Rating: 3/10 (10 April 2005)

This film tries hard to emulate the pulp qualities of the Sin City comic. However, the short choppy duologue obviously left the actors/actresses in a total quandary as to how to deliver them. This was seen early in the total failure of Michael Madsen to deliver lines with any inflection or character. Flat out, this was a brilliant idea, and the visual style was very interesting, but could still not overcome the literal transcription of a comic book duologue into a script.
If you like movies with nudity and violence, and do not mind tuning out the duologue entirely, this is the movie for you. However I am still left wondering if El Mariachi and Pulp Fiction were just fortunate accidents for each of these directors.