Over long, plodding Tarantino

Rating: 6/10 (16 January 2016)

Tarantino has been Hollywood's golden boy with the macabre touch for a long time. He is so well trusted that he is able to put out a below par western like this, and attract some of Hollywood's hottest stars, without having to try very hard.
Not that it isn't well acted. It is, particularly by Samuel Jackson and Jennifer Jason Leigh, but it is dull, preachy and punctuated by Tarantino's predictable violence, cranked up as far as he thinks we can bear it.
The section where Jackson taunts an old Southern civil war general about the death of his son (guess what, it turns out that He, Jackson, was responsible for said death). Well did you ever, there is no accounting what happens in the Wyoming wilderness, so unlikely, so obvious and so boring.
The muted light in the hut only serves to highlight the extreme violence of this highly over rated movie. I know other people have said it, but I agree that this is a rehash of Django Unchained in some ways, although that movie was considerably better.
I think Mr Tarantino can safely assume he has little more to add to the western genre.
Mary Gumsley