However due to the fact that he provided Rodriguez with the script and even performed a commentary track on the film's DVD release (something he does on none of his own directed films) just goes to show that Tarantino wasn't in it for the praise - he was in it for the fun and experience. George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Tarantino - not a bad cast! Had this been presented as an epic crime movie Tarantino would have helmed it. It's like a bunch of friends got together and decided to make a movie - albeit friends with fairly good reputations as filmmakers. Tarantino's script is just the baseline for it all. Rodriguez set out to make an homage to the spaghetti western/Evil Dead genre and did so. (Albeit fun ones.) Some have complained that the transformation from seriousness to sudden vampire comic book content is too fast and the story would have been far more interesting had it been rooted in realism for its entire duration. The second half, after they cross the border into Mexico - as others here have pointed out - becomes the Evil Dead segment of the film, where everything turns into some over-the-top, bizarre, gross-out vampire blood-'n-guts movie with bad special effects and cheesy scenes. The first half of the movie IS really good in terms of cleverness and Tarantino-style stuff - good dialogue, interesting plot and unlikeable characters.unique. ![]() The fact that the script was written by Tarantino didn't really mean anything since I had gathered from various sources that this was Tarantino's homage to the "splatstick" genre (of Evil Dead, etc.) and as a result the script probably wasn't so hot compared to Pulp Fiction. With little warning, the rules change drastically and the bloodbath ensues.Coming into this I knew it would be action over content - after all it was directed by Robert Rodriguez. But the filmmakers toss out that option when the quintet cruises into Mexico and heads for a rendezvous at the Titty Twister, a biker bar catering to the lawless.Īrriving at night, they plan to wait until morning when the hostages will be set free and the bad guys will connect with an underworld kingpin who’s offering them a safe haven for the rest of their lives. The slow-burn of Keitel, playing a gentleman in life-threatening situations, could have climaxed in a classic showdown between him and Clooney’s character. That chance comes when they take as hostages a dispirited preacher (Harvey Keitel) and his two teenage kids (Juliette Lewis and Ernest Liu). The character played by Clooney, on the other hand, is a likable killer whose loyalty to his brother and willingness to reason with potential victims grants him a shot at redemption. His character is a deadly psychopath, but apparently there’s nothing of interest going on underneath his pouting, bespectacled visage. The dialogue and situations in the early scenes evoke Tarantino’s best work, but the Oscar winner is hardly a revelation as an actor. But the fact remains, there’s enough misogynistic imagery and blatant sadistic fantasy in this film to last the rest of the year.Ĭlooney and Tarantino play brothers who are trying to get across the border after killing numerous law enforcers and innocents with no compunction. Perhaps it’s all a ruse to trap unsuspecting critics, with the buckets-of-gore approach serving as a comment on the excesses of screen violence.
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