Just watched it again after several years ago.
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jriddle73 — 2 years ago(May 04, 2023 01:24 PM)
No, I love Pam Grier but this was just terrible–the first time Tarantino showed he was really fallible as a filmmaker. This should have been a great movie. This is based on an Elmore Leonard novel, and the way Tarantino writes dialogue is largely lifted from Leonard, so this should have been a match made in heaven. Instead, everything QT added to it turned it into a ponderous bore of a movie.
On the bright side–this movie's only bright side–this is easily the best Chris Tucker movie ever made, as 5 minutes after Tucker first appears, Sam Jackson stuffs him in a car-trunk and blows his head off with a shotgun. That, alone, makes it worth a look (and if any of Tucker's movies were anywhere near that good, I'd line up for them).
"The Dig"
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MagneticMonopole — 2 years ago(May 04, 2023 01:43 PM)
It's not just a great crime film, but it has a fantastic soundtrack and it works really well as a "hang out" film. (A hang out film is one with long stretches where almost nothing happens plot wise, but you have fun just watching the characters interact.)
