Waste of time and talent

Rating: 4/10 (12 February 2016)

Aside from the vulgarity of this film I thought it was a good idea that was poorly executed. It's not linear, and fans of Taratino's work won't be surprised by that, but the narrative and almost cartoon like effects and gore turned, what could have been a great contemporary western, into a campy action film.
It's already tiresome that Tarantino uses the same group of actors, but the addition of a narrative, and break down of each act in the film was unnecessary and took away from the suspense.
It started out good, then formed into a mystery of sorts, then it was, as if, Taratino panicked and thought the audience was too stupid to digest what was taking place and switched to outlining the main aspects of the characters motivation and the overall pace of the film.
Another issue was the continuity errors. Most of his films have very obvious continuity errors, but the errors in this film were so glaring, it wasn't even funny.
And as always it's an 'N-Word' fest. Which seems to be the core element in all of Taratino's work. He seems to be obsessed with this word and Samuel L. Jackson seems always willing and able to oblige. Then to put three other actors of African decent in the film, only to get shot is even worse.
I get it. Show Caucasian people as callus, cruel, and racist. In Django Unchained it was understood and even somewhat acceptable because it was a period piece and that is simply how the times were. Here, same thing, but again, with the dialog floating between contemporary and past, it made it hard to take the whole film seriously.
Taratino is someone who has some good ideas, but a terrible at fleshing out those ideas and really needs to sit down with another writer to flesh his ideas out. He needs to also try a film that is not focused solely on race and race relations.
Even as a Taratino fan, I thought that this film was a waste of time. I gave it a four, only because it did have some entertaining moments.