21st century entertainment

Rating: 2/10 (18 April 2014)

After Django Unchained it became clear that Quentin Tarantino has been on his way to make movies in every genre he liked while working in the video rental in his early days. Just think of this sequence: Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained.
Anyhow, the photography has been wonderful again, the colors warm and the actors dressed smart. The script is Tarantino's ego tripping and leading nowhere, but there have been enough splatter scenes to keep the audience amused. Christopher Waltz has been great again, the rest of the cast less so.
And there we reach the same old mystery surrounding Tarantino's work. An army of connoisseurs tried to explain the higher plane of his output. In the case of Django Unchained, the message is supposedly anti-racist and elevated to the level of some ultimate anti-slavery pamphlet. Strange, since from his interviews i understood that Quentin Tarantino has been a movie buff and has been making movies that he himself would like to watch. I haven't been able to detect any higher meaning there...