It seems that Quentin Tarantino is trying to alternate between *good-good* and *blockbuster-good* movies. A few years ago, as "Jackie Brown" was his best movie (a good-good one), he made "Kill Bill", which was only blockbuster-good - according to me, "but I am not the only one", as would say some bearded man with little round glasses.Then came "Death Proof", which is - still - according to me, his best movie, for it was his most intimate, and his most audacious.
And now, the director had to follow this "alternation" rule by making this blockbuster (or blockbasterd ?). It still is a good movie, but probably the worst he directed. It lacks diversity in the music choice, nonetheless a thing we got used to, each time we discovered one of Tarantino's movies. This time, except for Moroder and Bowie's song from "Cat people", heard in a purely beautiful scene featuring Mélanie Laurent in a gorgeous red dress, the rest of the soundtrack is mostly an accumulation of Ennio Morricone, Charles Bernstein and Jacques Loussier's scores - beautiful pieces, but finally way too much of the same genre, and not always fitting the World War II period film, either because of the redundancy, or because of the tastelessness it brought to some scenes.
Apart from that, there are some very very good points.
Firstly, the dialogs. The language of the film is changing so often that it should be an dreadful nightmare for the mainstream American audience (and therefore a great pleasure for us European moviegoers !), and Tarantino teases us by making his characters speak english every now and then, without regards to their widely spread origins.
Secondly, Mélanie Laurent gives in this film her best performance ever, and proves to be currently the best young french actress (and also one of the most beautiful, according to me ^^).
And finally, Christoph Waltz himself is a reason good enough to watch this movie, bringing life to the real bastard of the (hi)story.
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