Beautifully shot, nice performances, but there's so much in the film which add nothing and create a sense of QT showing us just how powerful he is. Yes, he gets the actors. Yes, he gets the backdrops, the cars, the shots just right.

But it feels like one long commercial, where nothing happens. Sure, we might now look more into the peripheral story, but anyone could take 45 minutes out of this and miss nothing in terms of the film experience.

An exercise in vanity, which is something that strangles so many of QT's films.