Sentences with phrase «tarantino knockoff»

As clever as some of the dialogue here might be, most notably a conversation between El Monstrou and a 15 - year - old girl about to celebrate her Quinceañera, it's also where the film feels the most like a thinly veiled Tarantino knockoff.

Cast aside by most critics as being a violent mess yearning to be a Tarantino knockoff, I for one couldn't disagree more.

We're a long way from McDonagh's last film, Seven Psychopaths, which was a gleefully glib (albeit frequently hilarious) meta cartoon crime caper, like what Charlie Kaufman might make if assigned to write a Tarantino knockoff with his fictional brother Donald.

I thought that Free Fire might be reminiscent of the rise of Tarantino knockoff films in the 90s (The Big Hit, 2 Days in the Valley, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, Suicide Kings) but this movie actually made me yearn for a Tarantino knockoff.

Free Fire is a Tarantino knockoff that doesn't have the courage of its own B - movie convictions.

Back in the late 1990s, there were quite a number of Tarantino knockoffs to come out — hard - boiled and very violent thrillers that featured lots of quirky characters and attempts at amusing, anecdotal conversations between them that were meant to entertain above push the plot forward.

Not exact matches

A smug knockoff of Quentin Tarantino's brand of ironic violence, at several degenerations» remove.

But mostly this is a next - generation Quentin Tarantino / Guy Ritchie knockoff with excellent performances from the outstanding cast, a couple of pretty decent twists, some bloody good laughs and — well, that's about it.