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. But an abrupt turn of events results in horrific complications for the leads, who find themselves trapped in a nest of Mexican vampires. Written by Quentin Tarantino, who also co-stars, the film starts as a tense killers-and-hostages crime drama that might develop into something worthwhile.
