Much promise but what a fall from grace

Rating: 6/10 (15 July 2013)

I am not a Quentin Tarantino fan. I regard many of his films as relying on the materialism of ultra-violence, sex, drugs - without any essence of an engaging storyline or intriguing plot.
Throughout the two thirds of this movie, I really thought it would be different. It was a great story, action-packed, funny, edgy. It kept true to all that is Tarantino, whilst (in my opinion) offering an enjoyable storyline that kept me wholeheartedly interested.
Then came the scene where Waltz shoots Di Caprio (if you've seen it you'll know the scene) and the ridiculous gun battle breaks out with everyone in the house getting killed (except Django, of course). I just found this part of the story, for lack of a better word, stupid. And from then on it was just a downward spiral from what really was a great start, into a disappointing and senseless explosion of violence - killing off any hope of a conclusion that could do justice for the very enjoyable first two thirds of this movie.