If you have a free 3 hours.....watch The Revenant instead!

Rating: 1/10 (21 January 2016)

I signed up just to write a review of this film. I watched it a few nights ago, knowing Tarantino was a lover of the old spaghetti westerns, as I am myself, I was hoping for a modern version of the good , the bad and the ugly. Something that contained a story and characters as deep and involving as those. Seeing Kurt Russell in a leading role gave me hope. Samuel L Jackson didn't.
I liked Pulp fiction, I liked Reservoir Dogs, I liked Jackie Brown. They were original, the characters were strong. Kill Bill 1 was fairly good, but since then it seems to be a downwards spiral. The recent Tarantino movies have been tongue in cheek comedies, it worked in Django to some extent.
This film never had any depth, the characters were never developed, you couldn't relate to any of them, they were not believable. The story is set in "Millies Haberdashery" From the first moment it looked like a stage, a plastic setting, it did not look authentic and this theme continued with the rest of the characters. As was stated by previous reviewers the white teeth of the characters stands out a mile, the blonde female from NZ was completely out of place. Millie herself to me sounds like she should be a hard faced haggard of about 60 years old, instead we get a 20 something pretty black woman when she actually enters the film, plainly ridiculous. The ending is a waste of time, and the only thought you are left with at the end is, did I just spend 3 hours of my life on that?
Tarantino needs to go back to the drawing board, forget his own hype. His fans need to get off their high horses, and stop using his name as a vehicle to show how "arty" or "cultured" they are. This may have worked with pulp fiction, a truly intelligent and original movie but not with this farce.