Borderline bad

Rating: 5/10 (31 March 2020)

This film is mostly Tarantino indulging himself, which brings me to the most obvious flaw in this movie - Pam Grier is not a good actress. QT apparently has some kind of affinity for her, probably stemming from the blaxploitation era films, but those movies were BAD, and so was she. Fun, to a degree, but bad. In a film with such talents as Sam Jackson, Bridget Fonda, Robert DeNiro and Michael Keaton, the vast majority of the scenery is chewed by the least charismatic actors. To make matters worse, Forster and Grier had next to zero chemistry.
Pace was too slow, exacerbated by long, pointless steadicam walk-alongs that did nothing for the story. Ditto for the numerous long-take, single camera scenes. It just seemed to muzzle the performances. It was nearly painful to watch at times.
There were some good scenes with Fonda, Deniro, and Jackson, but they were few and far between.
I tried to like it when it came out, mainly because I like QT, and I probably overrated it at the time, basically rooting for it, and QT. Having recently re-watched it, I realized how mostly forgettable this film is.
It's just a dud for me. Sorry.