The only strengths here are the photography and the work of the actors. Clearly they're all screen veterans.

But for me, I just don't understand this kind of cinema. The story bewilders me, the editing and the writing leaving me confused as to what's actually happening, why it matters, and what we are supposed to take away from it. The characters behave so oddly. Overly dramatic, always enraged and disturbingly perverted. The camera obsesses over things that don't seem explained, logical, or end up as distractions and dead ends. I guess Tarantino's work is just a style I'll never appreciate. I can't stand his other movies either. It's almost like a video game world populated by NPC's where the hopped-up main characters rampage throught it, without regard to any sense of limits or reason.

And then the biggest weirdness on top of it, is the moral band-aid slapped over top. Honestly this film reads as a half-attempted correction/condemnation/apology tour of Hollywood's sins regarding um, kiddos. Much like how Tarantino's other films are accepted as "corrections" for other matters of race or sex, while flaunting the gratuitous exploitation of those issues. For me this just doesn't work. It just makes me more convinced that those who protest the loudest, are probably the most guilty.