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The Hateful Eight

2015 Directed by Quentin Tarantino

No one comes up here without a damn good reason.

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

Samuel L. Jackson Kurt Russell Jennifer Jason Leigh Walton Goggins Demián Bichir Tim Roth Michael Madsen Bruce Dern James Parks Dana Gourrier Zoë Bell Lee Horsley Gene Jones Keith Jefferson Craig Stark Belinda Owino Channing Tatum Quentin Tarantino

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Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 30

100/100

I wasn’t prepared for this. Obviously, I went into The Hateful Eight with the same expectations as I do with every newly-minted Tarantino flick. I wanted snappy dialogue, grand moments of violence, and masterful sequences of flourishing character, and I got all of that, for sure. However, I didn’t expect to walk out of the theater with a stupid grin on my face, barely able to walk because of the rampaging poignancy and blazing hatred woven through every frame. Going even further, I also wasn’t ready to ponder the question of whether The Hateful Eight was legitimately my new ‘favorite film’.

Yeah, you read that right. Hell, even I was stunned. A new Tarantino? My F-A-V-O-R-I-T-E film? What the…
Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 71

It's winter in Wyoming, post-Civil War, USA. A bounty hunter, his $10,000 female bounty, another bounty hunter, a recently elected sheriff, an old war general, a hangman, a silent cowboy, and some fella named Bob all cross paths at Minnie's Haberdashery. Who can be trusted? Where's Minnie? Will it ever stop snowing? It's QT's 8th film about 8 hateful people. Now, who wants a drag from a Red Apple tobacco hand rolled cigarette?

Not only was 2015 the year of the western, but it's the year of the Kurt Russell mustache. My lord! From Bone Tomahawk to The Hateful Eight, Kurt's facial hair is fuckfabulous. You can't help but think of John Carpenter's The Thing. People trapped in the snow.…
Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★½ 12

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

67/100

Let's get the "problematic" (someday I'll be able to use that word without air quotes again) stuff out of the way first:

Is the film misogynistic? Hard to believe anyone who's seen Tarantino's other movies (especially Death Proof) would even entertain that suspicion, and it doesn't hold up in a vacuum, either. One could interpret the ending (and many have) as a statement that misogyny trumps racism, but that observation is arguably feminist, and at the very least productively provocative; there's no indication whatsoever that Tarantino hates women. I'd argue instead that Daisy's gender is pretty close to irrelevant—or, to the extent that it is relevant, it's a nod toward being inclusive/subverting expectations. (And, yes, QT enjoys toying with…
Review by Evan ★★★★½ 16

The deadliest, bloodiest, and most entertaining game of Clue ever played.

Samuel L. Jackson and Walton Goggins were fucking fantastic. All of the performances were GREAT, but those two were the standouts for me.

Quentin Tarantino has once again created an all around well-made film. The writing is great. The dialogue is top-notch. The cast is freaken awesome. The performances are amazing. The action is absolutely brutal. And the visuals are incredible. Wether you like Tarantino's films or not; you can't say he doesn't know what he's doing.

The Hateful Eight is a bloody good time with some very memorable characters.
Review by nathaxnne walker (undead) ★★★★★ 21

The Locked-Room-Mystery-Evil-Cabin-Western America not only apparently deserves but supposedly could stand to use. The Hateful Eight is A Horror Movie more than it is anything else. The Morricone Cues from Exorcist II and The Thing as well as the David Hess (!) song from The Last House On The Left are clues enough but the threat here is not Demonic Possession nor Alien Invasion but the Accrued Evil of the United States In Action, with all parties at each others' throats in a scramble to suppress those on the bottom cruelly and violently until an error happens and the tables are turned, for however long, and common cause is made only in violence against another. This is Grand Guignol Home…
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★½ 23

"Youuuu gonnaaaa maaaake aaaa deaaalll
withhh thissss diaaabolicaaalll biiiiiiiiitch!?!"

Hugely visceral & downright disgusting.
Tarantino's best film since the 1990s.
Jennifer Jason Leigh steals the show.
(Honorable mention for Goggins, obviously.)

Recent reviews

Review by Filmnastic ★★★

Man kann sagen was man will aber Quentin Tarantino ist einer der besten Drehbuchautoren und Regisseure unserer Zeit.
Allerdings muss man sagen das ihm mit The Hateful Eight kein Meisterstück gelungen ist.
Die Dialoge sind super und die Kamera ist auch klasse,aber es fehlt dem Film an Story.
Der Richtige "Pfiff" der Handlung fehlt leider.

Wer einen langen Atem hat wird der Film mit sicherheit gefallen.
Wer einen super Action reichen Film mit viel Kampf und kurze Dialoge erwartet wird hier entteuscht.

Aber allem in einem ist The Hateful Eight kein schlechter Film sondern ein mutiger,der sich an alte dinge erinnert.
Review by CollinH678 ★★★★

I knew I loved it if I held in my piss even when the movie gave me a break and I skipped it every time.

Great acting and directing all around.
Review by Danyul ★★★½

Still falls short for me... It's a shame too because there's a lot to like.
Tarantino's narration is truly awful.
Review by isa khalil ★★★★★

what the. actual. fuck
Review by NoahHeskett ★★★★★

Part stagecoach stageplay, part brutal bloodbath, Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight manages to captivate audiences for nearly three hours with barely anything more than powerhouse dialogue from some of the year’s best performances.
Review by Yasser Abdelgawad ★★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Unless you're fighting for a cause, whatever beliefs you have are irrelevant in the face of immediate death, whether that's morality, god or that other races are inferior...it doesn't matter. Therefore, in short, the Lincoln letter which was used to "disarm white folks" became irrelevant by the end of the movie.
Review by taryn ★★★★★

i acknowledge and despise the wrong things about this film/quentin in general but channing tatum’s ten minutes are my favorite ten minutes of this almost 3 hour cinematic journey
Review by William Burnett ★★★★★

95/100

Ok sure the Tarantino narration is weird but everything else in this movie is incredible.
Review by Mark Pollesel ★★★★★

First time re-watch. As I expected, it has grown on me considerably. Absolutely love the third act of this film.