And Bruno was offensive?

Rating: 1/10 (25 August 2009)

And Bruno was offensive? I didn't believe the negative reviews (one even described this movie as an embarrassment to film-making), but I should have. There is no excuse for this film. Tarantino indulges his appetite for violence to no purpose. This movie is supposed to be a kind of homage to spaghetti westerns (background music emphasizes this with exclamatory relish), but as violent as those films were, there was always a moral dimension to them.
I have been bored by movies before, and offended, but never so bored and so offended at the same time, and by a filmmaker who knows better (I hope). I left early – maybe halfway through – so it might be argued I didn't give the movie a chance. But up to that point, there wasn't a single character I cared about. The one potentially sympathetic individual was plotting a scheme of grotesque mayhem. It's as though Tarantino was constantly trying to top himself in imagining novel ways to kill. Perhaps the next sequel of Saw could use him as a consultant.
I've sat through bad movies before, partly because I really hate disturbing other patrons as I work my way out the aisle. However, I had to leave this time. To stay would have been to suggest that I was enjoying Tarantino's orgy of gratuitous violence.
I so regretted contributing my seven dollars (it was a bargain matinée) to this enterprise that I had to salve my conscience by writing a heartfelt review.