Ugly and Uninteresting

Rating: 5/10 (4 May 2013)

A bounty hunter helps a slave rescue his wife. Tarantino has a sick obsession with violence. In films like "Pulp Fiction" and "Inglorious Basterds," the scripts are so interesting that one can overlook the blood-fest. Unfortunately, the script for this Western is so long and dreary that the repellent violence can't be ignored. The film actually gets off to a fairly engaging start, thanks to a gem of a performance from Waltz as dentist slash bounty hunter. Foxx is much less interesting as Django, a perpetually angry and arrogant slave. Things take a turn for the dreary when DiCaprio enters the picture as an evil slave owner. Soon thereafter the film runs out of steam but still rambles on for about an hour.