What exactly makes this film similar to a tarentino flick?

I can't answer your question since Tarantino never came to mind at all when I watched this movie. Tarantino light, maybe?

Maybe the casual bloody gunplay, use of the n word?

Maybe the casual bloody gunplay, use of the n-word.

I think it's the mixture of dark humor, violence, with a heavy dose of dialogue.

I don't think this movie is a Tarantino film though, or even inspired. This was just a dark comedy, Tarantino usually doesn't delve this far into the comedy.

The psychopaths being written on the screen as they appeared is similar to something Tarantino would do, but that's about it. Seven Psychopaths is mostly dark humour in a slightly serious setting, it doesn't feel very Tarantino to me at all.

Lots of talking about offbeat topics, interspersed with violence and blood. Hell. the opening sequence with the two hitmen and the first psycho screams "I want to be Tarantino!"


"My name is Paikea Apirana, and I come from a long line of chiefs stretching all the way back to the Whale Rider."

Yeah I agree with the others, don't really get a Tarentino vibe either. I get more of a Guy Ritchie vibe if anything.

Quippy dialogue, getting chummy with the metatheatre, gangsters and violence, but often in a funny way, the interest in pop culture...yeah, I can kinda see a Tarantino connection, but not a really, really strong one.

Everything that's a little tongue in cheek, but still firmly rooted in violent crime, with an unusual twist in its storytelling logic gets called - these days - "Tarantino-esque".