Exuberant Pastiche

Rating: 6/10 (27 September 2013)

You get pretty much what you expect here, characters strut around dispatching the baddies, the music pumps, the movie nerd references fly and the blood splatters. This is pretty much 'Inglorious Bastards' with slaves standing in for Jews and Southern Americans standing in for the Nazis. All that being said, it's plenty of fun, DiCaprio and Waltz are good, but Samuel L. Jackson steals the show as the evil butler who becomes the thorn in the hero's side, but you know it's inevitable that he'll get his due (and he does). Jamie Foxx looks good, but kind of gets lost in all the muscular scenery chewing being dished up by the other actors, the relationship between him and his wife doesn't really come off. Tarantino never really integrates his influences into something of his own, when he runs out of classic movies to quote, he tends to lapse into cliché, but it doesn't really seem to matter anymore.