Where Tarantino shows how to ruin yet another story.

Rating: 2/10 (24 June 2013)

Once again, Tarantino has failed to deliver. And, he's been doing that ever since he finished the respectable Reservoir Dogs (1992), his best attempt at making movies.
The storyline synopsis on the main page is sufficient to get the main theme. Instead, let me present a few points that make this effort as Tarantino's worst effort so far, imo (he is consistent though – each successive movie has been progressively worse than the previous).
First, it's supposed to be satire, but it degenerates into campy excess, throughout. Second, the gratuitous violence is simply bizarre, especially the bloodbath in the third act. Third, the treacly, anachronistic, overly loud sound track is boring, distracting and just plain stupid. Finally, and worst of all, a topic about slavery in the Deep South doesn't deserve to be presented like one of Ed Wood's failed projects (and I'm denigrating Mr Wood by saying that).
I should add, also, that the movie was at least an hour too long. On the plus side, the filming, editing and special effects are okay.
However, there have been much better movies about slavery in USA, beginning with Birth of a Nation (1915), then Gone with the wind (1939), Mandingo (1975) and others.
Don't waste your time and money to see DU. I didn't pay a dime, not a cent. But I did waste 165 minutes of my life.
Give this 2 out of 10. Not recommended, period.