He's losing it.
I'm talking about Quentin Tarantino. Reservoir Dogs was a masterpiece. Pulp Fiction was okay. Jackie Brown is a tragedy. The only thing to like here is a few performances by the cast, but the script is painfully bad. We heard the best lines in the trailer.
The direction seems very much like a hack job. Split screens, intentional out-of-focus shots, and unnecessary overheads are cluttering my view. And the soundtrack doesn't fit the movie. Every character listens to music from twenty years ago. You pick any group of people and you will find people listening to very different music. Even if you think you can pick it, you can't. Q was hoping for a 90s blaxpoitation film and what he made was a college film that's actually done worse than a college student.
The one performance I liked above all was Michael Keaton. He seems to be trying to pull his career back together. He does a good job as a member of the ATF. I'm not a big Keaton fan, but here he pulls it off nicely. He seems tough and young, which is odd considering he's old and seems somewhat wimpy.
The main problem here is Q has lost his coolness. He ain't hip, and he's trying to hard to be hip. I give Jackie Brown a D.
