don't believe the hype

Rating: 1/10 (29 January 2013)

This is far from being as great as a lot of folks are saying. It's not a total piece of rubbish, but this is definitely not Tarantino at his best.
Firstly let me just say, that the action isn't terribly well done. A couple of years back Tarantino thought hey, lets create shootout scenes that involve everyone dying in about the space of ten seconds. The first time he did this it was great. Now it feels like a joke we've seen too many times. Can't we have a prolonged action scene where the tension builds up and up?
Secondly there are a lot of what are apparently minor flaws: Why does the woman (as Django shoots her at the end of the movie) fly off to the side as if pulled by a rope? Is it meant to look fake? If so why? I don't get it. Why introduce the mysterious character of the woman with the red bandanna across her face, only to have her disposed of in the space of ten seconds? Why does Shultz shoot Candie at a time when he knows it risks the girl's life? Seems out of character to me, since he has risked everything to save the girl.
Also the Shultz character seems to be too closely akin to the character the same actor played in Inglorious Basterds (which I felt was a much better movie). Couldn't they come up with something more varied? And the Australians working for the mining company are utterly implausible. Did they somehow get teleported directly from outback Australia to Southern USA without losing one iota of their slang and dialect? I don't buy it.
Anyway I could go on picking holes in this movie. But I'll leave it there.