And the story was about...what?

Rating: 5/10 (30 January 2016)

This film has the usual Tarantino ingredients. Same old ensemble cast, lots of needless violence, buckets of blood and gore. Dialogue that reaches the odd humorous level but really is trite for most of the film. Excellent cinematography of the Wyoming winter. Clever camera work and faultless direction. Much has been said about the language and a number of gratuitous scenes. All valid arguments but that is Tarantino I guess. I think comedians who resort to obscene language and jokes are talentless and earning their money on the cheap. Ditto film directors. The film is so long! There is an interval (If you were paying homage to the history of cinema Mr T I would have called it an intermission? But there you go.) In the second half we have a narrator and that trick of many a poor TV script the flashback! I think the film could have been reduced by an hour easily. But as the credits rolled and Roy Orbison sang his song I thought, 'And the story was about...what?' Disappointing.