Overrated, and 100% based on ANIME

Rating: 4/10 (9 March 2016)

In a nutshell, this is Anime. There shouldn't be so much hype about this movie. I really enjoy the other movies by Tarantino, but I feel this movie was basically copy-pasted from already existing samurai styled anime. The story is average. The characters, the roles, the speech, the fighting style, the costumes even, are ALL an exact copy of already existing samurai anime out there. A few examples of such are: Samurai Champloo, Afro Samurai, Rurouni Kenshin, and many more which existed before this movie. I guess those that haven't seen enough anime or Asian action movies wouldn't really know about this and think "wow this is so original". It's really not.
Now when it comes to cinematography, sure it was beautifully done, but as for the rest... this movie doesn't deserve credit for fighting scenes and characters that already existed.