Tarentino at his self-indulgent worst

Rating: 1/10 (24 February 2019)

A lot of scenes in a lot of Tarentino movies are hard to get through; he loves to film long drawn out dialogue between characters that goes on and on...and on. If you enjoy his movies, and I have enjoyed some of them, you put up with it and just wait it out.
In this movie however, he not only took this method of movie making to the extreme but, just to make it even more tedious, he did most of it in subtitles. Subtitles that move across the screen so quickly that you spend most of your time speed reading instead of watching the damn movie. It was annoying, it was boring, it was not at all entertaining. I think Mr. Tarentino has cashed in on the gravitas he's built up in Hollywood to completely toss aside his inhibitions (and good sense) and let his penchant for endless dialogue run riot. The result is an almost unwatchable film.
Add to that several other drawbacks and this becomes a movie to avoid at all costs. And yes, I know it did good box office, all I'll say to that is there's no accounting for taste. Jackie Chan movies make money too...it doesn't mean they're good.
The two female leads could be twins, did Tarentino do this purposely? I didn't see why it mattered if he did but I did at times confuse one for the other. Also, both came to violent ends. And again, yes I know that Tarentino movies are ultra violent but it's starting to seem that he takes special pleasure in portraying attractive women being killed in gory detail. I've read that he even insisted on choking Diane Kruger himself, to the point of her losing consciousness, to make it look realistic. If anyone has seen Atomic Blond with Charlize Theron there's a scene in that movie in which a female character is strangled to death as well. They didn't go to the extremes Tarentino did in this movie and it actually looks much more realistic and disturbing....it's called acting. Is Sofia Boutella a better actress than Diane Kruger, I doubt it. But Kruger never got the opportunity to demonstrate that. Could it be that Tarentino just wanted to see what it was like to choke a woman? Just like he insisted on spitting in Uma Thurman's face himself in a scene in Kill Bill?
And never mind the total lack of historical accuracy in the film, I didn't expect it to have any, especially after I watched part of (couldn't finish it) Brad Pitt's last WWII entry; Fury. This movie was just one long, boring conversational circle jerk interspersed with moments of over-the-top violence. Which is of course classic Tarentino but this movie took it much too far...or maybe his act is just getting stale.
Don't bother with this movie, it's not worth your time, or the effort expended trying to keep up with the flying subtitles.