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It's a proper Tarrantino film. Why use one word when you can use a thousand. Good story and dialogue but never needs to be this long.
This is a very long film running in just below 2 hours and 50 minutes, but it is meticulously crafted. The film is completed in the style of an old movie from the 30s/40s perhaps to some extent even earlier in films history, constructed with old style cowboy music ,title screen and end credits while fitted with 5 distinct chapters to separate the different events in the film.
In many ways this is like nothing you will ever see, but there is also something so familiar in this piece. In many ways it reminded me of watching an old cowboy film but just the same it felt in its heart like Tarrantino's work, the gore,the tension and the violence all remaining pivotal. The film is by all means fantastic edge of your seat action with the third act standing out triumphantly.
The cast keeps some Tarrantino favourites in Tim Roth and Micheal Madsen while introducing Kurt Russell and Samuel L.Jackson and the surprise addition of Walton Goggins as a main character. The cast is fantastic even if there are some surprises in there over who is going to be the 'lead'.
Although the first 30 minutes were quite boring in my opinion the film picks up and the setting up from the first 30 minutes turns out to be very important, it is clever writing techniques like this that take this film from great to fantastic. The haunting last act remains fantastic and the message it sends is vital, the gore is on a new level at points with the great Greg Nicotero being involved. What you are met with is a faithful but fully Tarrantino Cowboy Flick and I am more than up for that!
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