Violent and dull garbage

Rating: 1/10 (12 March 2006)

Rodriguez and Tarantino just keep doing these hyper-violent movies and we believe via some clever and cute dialogue that they're "laughing at the genre", "turning violence around 360 degrees", "standing the archetypes on their heads so that we can laugh at ourselves. And the universe." Really, this is just cr*p plain and simple. These guys like to bathe us in blood & gore because that's all they're good at. It isn't fun; it isn't funny; and it's not even a little clever. A few hip lines and a couple of cool scenes don't make for a good movie.
This is close to the worst movie I've ever scene. All of the tricks are right in your face - Rourke's band-aids; the ninja hookers; the dismemberments and dogs chewing on leg stumps.
It's much like reading through one of the cartoons in Heavy Metal magazine by those "edgy geniuses".