Quentin needs an editor

Rating: 5/10 (18 January 2013)

At 165 minutes, this film is about 45 minutes too long. There's a point at about 2hrs 10 min. when I had seen a good story and expected it to end. But Noooooo. We need to get all wrapped up in a sub-story about Australian cowboys(huh?) that does nothing for the plot and only serves to place extra firepower into the hands of the main character. Will somebody get this guy an editor? I'm willing to put up with QT's usual anachronisms, and even his flagrant nonsensical sequences: at one point his hero, en route from Texas to Tennessee, is shown bathing in a Yellowstone(i.e., Wyoming/Montana) hot pool, with the Grand Tetons in the background. I suppose the hot springs could be in Arkansas-which would make sense-but not the Grand Tetons. I was impressed with the originality of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, but this film and Inglorious Basterds, while they have great performances and great moments in them, stray too far from reality for my money.