The only similarity it bears to the work of Quentin Tarantino is in its propensity for shooting main characters in the head.
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08/23/04
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Nicotina (2004)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:21
Rotten:26
Average Rating:5.6/10
Theatrical Release:Aug 20, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $800,371
Synopsis: From the producers of "Amores Perros" comes "Nicotina", a highly stylized crime caper set in Mexico City about a simple exchange that goes awry, causing the lives of nine unsuspecting characters to... [More]
Starring: Diego Luna, Lucas Crespi, Jesus Ochoa, Rosa Maria Bianchi
Director: Hugo Rodriguez
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Reviews for Nicotina
For all its zoomy camera work and outrageous mishaps, the film is as stale as a forgotten pack of Pall Malls.
08/23/04
Top CriticWe thankfully seem to have exhausted our Tarantino imitators up here, but apparently they're still at work south of the border.
08/23/04
Hugely entertaining Mexican crime comedy.
08/20/04
Director Hugo Rodriguez and writer Martin Salinas must have thought they were on a post-Tarantino edge. Their only edge is the razor slicing open the hoodlum.
08/20/04
Lightweight but enjoyable entertainment.
08/20/04
Imagine a fast-paced Mexican Pulp Fiction, and you've got a pretty good idea what this pungent, funny and unapologetically violent caper film is all about.
08/20/04
Amusingly diverting at the time of viewing but ultimately as transitory as a wisp of cigarette smoke.
08/20/04
It leaves you with the spectacle of badly mutilated bodies and an unpleasant taste of too much hipster irony -- that was truly hip a decade ago when Tarantino did it right.
08/20/04
It's as though director Hugo Rodríguez and writer Martín Salinas watched every movie ever influenced by a Tarantino movie -- not the real thing, even -- and boiled them into something bland.
08/20/04
Ultimately, it is series of coincidences and misunderstandings in which nicotine is to Nicotina what the Big Mac was to Pulp Fiction.
08/20/04
Blood, guts, diamonds, and nicotine - a lethal and funny combination.
08/20/04
This grisly, comical shaggy-dog thriller from Mexico provides the latest evidence that the international movement we might call Tarantinismo is alive and well.
08/19/04
Top CriticAppealing combination of mordant humor and cheerful pessimism.
08/19/04
Top CriticMr. Rodriguez and screenwriter Martin Salinas create inspired moments of dark humor.
08/19/04
Top CriticSupercharged with an energy and ingenuity that Run Lola Run once had a patent on.
08/19/04
The significance of this nicotine obsession, except as a clumsy subplot connector, eluded me entirely, as did that of almost everything else that transpires in this self-satisfied, incoherently busy farce.
08/19/04
Intricate but curiously drab...for all the cigarettes that are smoked and talked about in the movie, it's resolutely non-addictive.
08/19/04
It arrests with violent bursts and anxious pauses until its three plots merge in a satisfying resolution; its laughs caught in my throat like smoker's cough.
08/19/04
Undeniably, captivatingly clever.
08/19/04
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