On the surface the story is fairly standard perhaps but there's something incredibly evocative about the art style and sound design - maybe it's that the actual animation is limited, so the characters spend much of the film frozen in space (it opens and closes with views of the decaying landscape around them). It's not a story of mythical, badass gangsters (the Tarantino comparison is, again, just superficial) but of characters trapped in a world of petty and mundane local corruption. The score is wonderful too.

Rather anonymously directed, and not confident in its images to let them linger and unsettle. Instead it falls back on schtick - upping the body count, upping the gore, upping the wisecracking kid quotient, and bizarrely recreating and reversing moments from the original. Where the original is elegant, this one is convoluted. Jamie Lee Curtis, the score (by John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies) and the title sequence deserve better than the film that's built around them.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.