There is a reason it doesn't rate as high as other Tarantino movies. Great acting. Lovely sceneries. Decent to good dialogue. Cool slash pretty crazy development when you know the background story. So it's a good picture with some good scenes, but the total result comes a bit short in my opinion plainly because the script and the story just isn't great. Worth a watch any day, but don't expect to be as spoiled by Tarantino as you're used to.