Just a wonderfully crafted film. It's funny, memorable, and tense as all get-out. The pace might be a bit uneven and (on occasion) slow for some, but I thought it worked great -- the film has rightly been called Tarantino-esque, so if you feel Tarantino's films tend to be overlong, you likely will here too, but if not, this is certainly no slower. If anything, I frequently wished the plot wouldn't keep thundering on, so that character pairings and moments from the beginning of the movie could be revisited a few more times before it was all over. ( )

People with various secrets stay at an out-of-the-way motel.

3/4 (Good).

There's a lot of interesting setup that really pulls you in, but not much in the way of payoff. ( )