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The first one gained a "cult" following when it went to DVD. It was extremely limited release originally playing in like under 20 theaters. The movie itself is as good as you can get next to Tarantino in terms of an action movie with a great storyline. Unfortunately the first one got a lot of bad reviews because so many critics took the film as a wannabe Tarantino film. If you get a chance I would highly advise driving to a local Blockbuster to at the very least rent it, if not buy it.
Anyways Granite, you may be in luck, because the studio actually plans on expanding the release on November 13th to more theaters. Thankfully most of the ones it's in now are on the east coast because I managed to find a theater only 20 minutes away that had it instead of driving to New York. Overall its hard to say if this was better then the first, maybe because I felt William Dafoe really made that movie, but then again there's a lot more of the Brothers father in this film and it presents itself very well with background story without straying away or becoming too confusing like so many other films do. If you liked the first one you most certainly will love this one, and to anyone that hasn't seen the first one it is more or less a cinematic marvel along the lines of Resevoir Dogs and such. A must see.
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