Tim Laws
2026-01-20This is still great, 30 years on. I love Robert Rodriguez films. From the 90s to the late 00s, they were always fun. Clooney is brilliant as ever. The make-up, effects and puppet work looks amazing. A few points of order: 1. My dad watched this in 97/98 on VHS thinking it was a standard crime/QT film. Was a shock when it hits the hour mark. Would have loved to have gone into this not knowing what was happening! 2. Nerd Alert: I ripped my DVD of this to an MKV file and watched it via Plex. The DVD was a 480p (Plex reports it at 576p) and it looks great. HD hurts my eyes and I like a bit of grain on my films. All these jokers moaning when something isn't blu-ray or 4k are just talking crap. Plus DVDs cost about 60p from the charity shop these days. Snap them up! 3. The reason this isn't a 5-star film for me is Quentin Tarantino. As an actor, he's weak sauce, man. Truly truly the worst actor.