Typical Tarantino - Good, But...

Rating: 4/10 (4 May 2015)

I enjoyed the movie for the first hour and a half - the cinematography was excellent, the acting was superb, but the story dragged and became very predictable. I especially liked how Tarantino used actors you haven't seen in a while in small to medium roles, like Don Johnson, Tom Wopat (Dukes of Hazzard fame), Bruce Dern, Jonah Hill, all nicely done. If you just love Tarantino, then you will love this film. Plenty of cursing, blood, gruesome violence - all the things that make his films memorable. In the second half of the film, I got the feeling he was trying to break a world's record for how many times he can squeeze the "n" word into the script. Dialog was good, but not as entertaining as his previous scripts - the one notable exception was the banter between Don Johnson's band of riders. The gem of the movie was Christoph Waltz's performance - outstanding.
I give the film a 5/10 because of the last hour or so - the violence was Tarantino's style, but it was just too much and would have been more effective with just a little less.