one of the best films of all time

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2016)

Arguably this should not be a difficult film to review. It is nothing less than brilliant. The story, the direction, the musical score, the casting, the acting, the dialog, the fight choreography, the inset homage to past films ... brilliant.
Just brilliant.
What makes this film tricky to review is not the film but ironically the film-maker.
I do not know the deep background here but I am guessing that QT, at the very height of his creative powers, locked himself in a cabin in the woods for a month and put this opus together. And essentially (in the view of this reviewer) not only created one of the best films of all time but essentially defined his own career by setting a bar so high that even his own future work could not equal it.
And there you have it. The hard part of the review.
The film is perfection. But in my view QT has yet to produce anything that comes close either in terms of final product or even in terms of effort expended.