Νot bad, but not good either

Rating: 5/10 (15 January 2016)

I really liked all of Tarantino's previous films, but this one I don't understand. Too many things in this film seem out of place, too many dialogues are repeated over and over again and most of the scenes last more than they should have. This movie could easily be 30 minutes shorter and still be longer than absolutely needed.
Now, being a Tarantino film, it shouldn't come as a surprise that everything in this movie is there because Tarantino absolutely wanted it to be, so everything has a meaning in the greater sense of things this movie wants to say or project. While I can get behind this in some cases, I couldn't find the meaning and purpose for many scenes and/or dialogues, or maybe even characters. This movie seems like 10 smaller ones (with variable length), cobbled together with only a thin connecting tissue holding them in order to form a coherent movie.
It's not all bad though. Samuel Jackson is predictably good, so is Jennifer Jason Leigh. There are a few good laughs in the movie as well.
I think it's a pure 5/10 movie: not bad, but not good either.