Solid with some brilliant moments

Rating: 8/10 (12 July 2007)

The romance is a bit cheesy and the violence is a bit too mean-spirited, but the amazing ensemble cast and the ending more than make up for it. Slater + Arquette are good, but when compared to Hopper, Walken, Oldman, Pitt, Kilmer, Sizemore, Jackson, Gandolfini.... unbelievable. It's too bad that most of the big-names were in glorified cameos; I would have loved to see more Kilmer-as-Elvis (or even his face!) and Oldman-as-pimp. The Sicilian scene was brilliant, as expected, but I really, really dug the final shootout as well. Scott's direction is fairly unremarkable here; it's QT's script that really stands out. I wish it had been left in his original order; i.e. non-linear. But oh well, it's a solid film with some brilliant moments.