Worst Tarantino Film

Rating: 2/10 (22 January 2016)

QT had been my favorite director till he turned out The Hateful Eight. I don't remember how many times I have seen Pulp Fiction. Even his later works like 'Inglourious Basterds' have left me speechless. His understanding of filmography is transcendental. Consequently, I was totally flummoxed by a film which turned out to be a truck-load of pure manure. If Tarantino has decided that the cause of African-Americans will be furthered by creating films of fictional Black-retribution he is most welcome to do it; but he should do it with more flair, and perhaps more care. It looks like that 'flair' is something which is totally missing in this movie, and has replaced with something like toxic self-indulgence. It looks like that that QT has decided that because he has built such an international reputation,any nonsense he now produces will be lapped up as great cinema. It does have the Tarantino trademarks of occasional great dialogue, competent acting, elaborate dance of blood and gore, and quality music. But where it goes all wrong is a remarkably languorous pace, a ponderous playhouse script, a completely meaningless and insane story, a remarkably linear storytelling (with the characteristic chapter-numbering of scenes laboring as cliché than any cinematic necessity), and a general feeling that QT is doing all this to advance his Black-retribution philosophy than any compulsion to create a compelling saga. If this film was produced as a second rate Hollywood flick by any B-grade filmmaker I would perhaps thought of rating it as passable, and then only if the running-time was kept under two hours. But with a 3 hour running time produced under the QT banner, it can only be called a monstrous waste of time and money, which deserves to be canned; or shown to film students as a case-study of how NOT to make a film. The 2 stars I have awarded is for some occasional good dialogue...otherwise it is such an awful film that I now feel that there should a law against producing such bad films. Best avoided.