Great but flawed

Rating: 7/10 (19 January 2013)

**Spoiler Ahead!**
The derringer has two shots, why didn't the doctor use the second shot in the critical moment??? QT has the prowess to make me care about the characters, then gratuitously, needlessly, carelessly, stupidly ** MAJOR SPOILER IMMINENT ** kills off my favorite one!? Of course the movie is great - all his movies are - but that moment left me frustrated and cold toward the rest of the movie. And not to touch on the blaring controversy, but i had a hard time suspending disbelief toward Samuel L. Jackson in this film. He is such an enlightened, bad-ass black man that my poor senses were left in clanging cacophony by his repulsive fawning. And don't give me the argument that his character was somehow empowered by his disrespectful demeanor toward Candie. Candie's bemused tolerance of this inappropriate (for the setting) quasi-prickliness only left a worse taste. Just my admittedly benighted criticism of a master of the medium.