This film is nothing more than a personal project for Tarantino who didn't want to make just one film. His references to other directing techniques and directors in his other films was well placed. They tied in with the story line and made for really interesting and unique viewing, which was most importantly, relevant to the story.

Tarantino uses this film as an opportunity to try and heap of directing techniques with the guise of them being part of the story line. The sad truth is that the sections where Leonardo Di Caprio is acting in these different parts has literally nothing to do with any story line in the film. Large sections of completely pointless material. In all honesty, the whole film felt like pointless content. The only real drama to be captured in the film is right at the end and the "storyline" is so weak that it would be difficult to say that there was any story line in this film.

Numerous characters who added nothing to the film andhuge sections of the film were other films. Leonardo and Brad Pitt are incredibly watchable as is the case with all their films, but this does not make up for what is a truly disastrous film in my opinion.