[Ryan] Prows also has a more deft and adroit handling of race relations in modern America. While Tarantino has always tackled race head-on, if often with too blunt a tool, Lowlife manages to feed in more subtlety.

The climax is suitably violent, and I honestly love the fact that Prows keeps the blood and gore to a minimum.

A shallow exercise in nastiness, contriving different ways that people can be cruel to each other.

Lowlife is there to remind Hollywood that there are plenty good, entertaining films left to be made before more remakes should be pumped out. It's an original story with a familiar style that works great.