![]() ![]() As the brothers leave the store they continue to argue whilst the store blows up. A gunfight ensues which ends up with Pete being set alight. As the two brothers argue, Pete opens a safe and gets a gun, shooting at the brothers and blowing a hole through Ritchie’s hand. McGraw is saying his goodbyes when Ritchie shoots the Ranger and then says that Pete whispered “Help us,” something the clerk denies. The toilet flushes and the two drag the girls back into the produce racks. Ritchie accuses Pete of signalling McGraw, which he denies. ![]() ![]() The two girls are being held by said fugitives, the brothers Seth (George Clooney) and Richard, or Ritchie, Gecko (Quentin Tarantino), and they had told Pete to get rid of the Ranger. Suddenly the customers in the store are at the front desk and a gun is a Pete’s head. He speaks to liquor store clerk Pete (John Hawkes) for a while, mentioning fugitives on the run who have killed Texas Rangers, and then goes to use the bathroom. Now a nice bit of cross-over is the fact that Parks reprises the character role in Kill Bill Vol 1 (2003) by Tarantino. The film begins with a car pulling up at Benny’s World of Liquor and Texas Ranger Earl McGraw (Michael Parks) parking and entering the building. Now for many people that is an issue but I think that it is less a film of two parts than many, perhaps, make out and it is certainly not an issue to me. The film is, to a degree, a film of two parts. I should also admit that I have somewhat of a crush on Salma Hayek (and have done ever since I watched this movie at the cinema when it was first released) and therefore you are going to find that this review is going to be peppered with gratuitous Salma screenshots – I make no apologies for that! Now I should admit at this point I like Rodriguez’ movies, generally, and I think Tarantino is one of the most talented people involved in modern movies. Let’s face it when you have a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, direction by Robert Rodriguez and Salma Hayek in the film you can’t go too far wrong. This review is one I’ve held back from for too long. ![]()
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