Could have been great - A real review - not from a fan boy

Rating: 6/10 (8 January 2013)

I'm a fan of QT's work, he has made some good movies, this is one of them for about an hour or so and then it slows to a crawl, is full of way too much new music and becomes a satire instead of the semi- realistic film it started out as.
Christoph Waltz is brilliant and his character is well written and full of great lines. Jamie Foxx cuts a good figure, looks the part but his acting in this is bland and not memorable. QT again makes the mistake of putting himself in a cameo part to bad effect, he ruins the scene he is in and he can't act worth a damn.
I guess the worst part is the lack of realism, the first half is totally believable, the second half turns into a sort of Kung Fu flying dragon mess with armies of guys on a plantation, a woman being blown back sideways by a single pistol shot from the wrong direction and Foxx blowing up an entire mansion in one shot with about 8 sticks of dynamite.
The story was good and this could have been a great movie. As with the worst parts of other QT films, there is too much talking, too much music, too much pretentiousness, and it's too long by 20 mins.