Well made. I liked the pacing. Very dialogue heavy, to a fault. This is a classic example of "tell, don't show". Tarantino is a crafty filmmaker even when he's making not very good films, and this is a case of that.

For what it's worth this is probably my favorite Tarantino flick since Jackie Brown. It falls into a lot of the same trappings of modern Tarantino films. To much reliance on not great dialogue. Cringeworthy humor. Trying too hard to be cool. But there's enough of a spark here that I sat tight through the whole 3 hours.

The Great Silence, which this movie was clearly heavily inspired by, is one of my favorite films of all time, and I really do think this picture did that one justice by expending on some of its core themes. Now that's damn high praise coming from me. Even if there's not a whole lot else I can compliment this film on, I can at least say that.

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