Mixture of crime and comedy told with multiple viewpoints is no longer a new thing after "Pulp Fiction," but the impression of "11:14" is closer to Doug Liman's "go" (1999), of which tagline goes "Life begins at 3 am." Greg Marcks' film starts earlier, but the tone is slightly darker.



The film, which starts with one strange car accident involving a dead body falling from up above, skillfully puts together a range of different perspectives. More strange and bizarre accidents are to happen later in the film and those characters played by Hilary Swank (also co-executive producer), Henry Thomas, Blake Heron, Barbara Hershey, Clark Gregg, Shawn Hatosy, Stark Sands, Colin Hanks, Ben Foster, Patrick Swayze and Rachael Leigh Cook, make serious (and hilarious) mistakes.



Hilary Swank's convenience store clerk "Buzzy" and gunshots part is most interesting and so is the freak accident that happens to one drunken teenage boy in the van. Both episodes end up with terrible and painful results which will make the viewers laugh a lot.



But for me as the film went on, it became less and less interesting. It's like jigsaw puzzle and as the pieces are put in the right places, there are no more surprises coming from the finished parts. In Tarantino, round characters like Mia, Vincent and Jules never bored us with superb acting from Uma Thurman, John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson all speaking the dialogues you never forget. Here some characters are disappointingly flat such as Rachael Leigh Cook's flirting daughter and Patrick Swayze's concerned father. Tarantino would have milked their scenes for more surprising jokes (like the dead body in the backseat and Harvey Keitel's cleaner episode). In "11:14" we can predict what is coming after seeing Rachael Leigh Cook's character and her boyfriend enter the graveyard.



"11:14" is an entertaining dark comedy and the director has a flair for making unique comic scenes, though it is also true that I felt I had seen them before while watching.