Almost perfect!

Rating: 8/10 (20 January 2013)

The acid test for Tarantino movies is: Do you want to watch it again - and soon? Whereas I've watched both Kill Bill's more times than I care to admit, I'm not going to want to watch this movie twice (unless of course it's screened on Freeview TV and I'm hooked from the start!).
It does captivate all the way through the first 140 minutes, until the tense castration sequence, where it loses credibility (even for a Tarantino plot) and goes to pot?!
Having killed so many 'white folks' at the Candie big house, why they want to pack him off to a mining company rather than do ghastly and unseemly things to him defies normal logic (let alone Tarantino logic!) and this is where this otherwise fine film falls flat on it's face.
I want to give this 10 points (believe me) as Tarantino normally presses all our buttons but I'm deducting 2 points for the mining company 'exile' and the overuse of exploding blood bags on almost every shooting! I do have to compliment him on the ever so artistic spraying of blood (from the exploding blood bags!) on the blossoming cotton plants.
On a sour note, Tarantino abused a much loved Channel 4 news presenter here in the UK with a vulgar display of arrogance and rudeness whilst promoting this movie. Even if he has explained his reasoning for graphic violence in previous interviews he could have repeated it for UK viewers? He certainly did himself no favours with UK fans...