Perhaps Europeans expect less effects and more story telling. This movie brings both. It is told in fragments which are not in chronological order. This opens the opportunity to make good effects at the end of a cut as the non-chronological order, whereafter it brings you to somewhere completely different in the story. You wonder what is in between the gaps. This serves the story telling very well.

One sees that the production of the movie is of very high quality. For some reason they chose to make Bruce Willis with moles on both sides of the face and a ridiculous beard (approx. 10 long hairs) under the lower lip. No, we do not like this drug dealer, that he portrays in this movie. It has also a touch of comical humor, which distances you from what objectively is happening. On the cost side it lacks reality. The characters are unreal in the sense we could not meet them in the outside world. I agree in this choice because it is meant to entertain. Not educate or moralize.

It is not the ending that is important. The story could have been told in innumerable ways. And I am inclined to believe, that Quentin Tarantino has not been in vain.