Mostly drivel

I can't understand the high-rating this film seems to have garnered. I like films with a plot, with characters that are even remotely human and with a heart. The first 20 minutes actually looked promising but that still left 2 hours and 13 minutes to fill and there were numerous times when I wanted to throw things at the screen as Tarantino made an obvious point with infuriating glaciality. This film is, as so many of Tarantino's films are, slices of questionable dialogue between semi-drawn characters then pointlessly sandwiched between fatuous bursts of extreme violence and gore. Cartoonish to the extreme with some of the most half-witted half-formed characters I've ever seen in film. Pitt should have stayed home instead of trying to frown his eyebrows off his head with the most unbelievable drawling accent. Waltz plays his role very well demonstrating range and a proficiency with languages that is atypical of Hollywood's dumb-it-down rule but his script shows signs of insanity towards the end. Some of the visuals are cleverly composed and a handful of the actors turn in good performances but for all that, there's no message in this film and nothing to learn. I'll avoid his work from now on.


2/10