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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 kayla ★★★★★ 49

It’s my birthday and I’ll watch The Hateful Eight for the trillionth time if I want to
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 (nightmare defective) ★★★★★ 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…

Recent reviews

Review by Zaron ★★★★

Der Film ist definitiv nicht so gut wie Inglourious Basterds und Django Unchained was daran liegt, dass die Geschichte die Dialoge und die Figuren nicht ganz so gut ausgearbeitet und perfektioniert wurden.

Jedoch konnte mich die Stimmung die durch eine schöne Westernmusik und einer schönen Kamerarbeit erzeugt wird sehr überzeugen und wenn es mal richtig spannend wird und Samuel L. Jackson seiner Figur etwas mehr Tiefe geben kann dann
ist es einfach ein richtig guter Film
Review by Julu✨ ★★★½

Tarantino playing "Rise™" with entertaining dialogues and strategies.
I just wanted to point out that the voice over to EXPLAIN things was basically VAGUE after all the complex scriptwriting that was done here????
Review by paulemen ★★★★

Western/Kammerspiel über 8 scheinbar Fremde die während eines Blizzards in Wyoming zusammen in einer Postkutschenstation festsitzten und doch eine Gemeinsamkeit haben.

Das ganze hat eine gute Handlung mit gelungen Dialogen die selbst beim wiederholten ansehen noch funktioniert. Einzig bei der Laufzeit hat es Tarentino vielleicht ein wenig übertrieben.

Die Besetzung ist recht gut. Walton Goggins sticht hier meiner Meinung nach hervor. Einzig bei Tim Roth, der auch einen guten Job macht, bleibt der Gedanke daß diese Rolle möglicherweise für Christoph Waltz gedacht war.

Mir gefallen zudem Ausstattung und mach Art. Letzters erinnert an die Italo Western Ära.

Was bleibt ist ein, meiner Meinung nach, gelungener Tarentino Film der allerdings durch seine Laufzeit nicht jedem Zeitpunkt.
Review by BlameCanada ★★★★★ 1

My Tarantino-fest has finally come to an end. Coming from a theatre background, I appreciate how Tarantino wrote a mystery within a one-room cabin that was compelling for its three hour runtime. A lot of people thought it wasteful for him to film in Panavision on a film that mostly takes place inside a cabin, but by rewatching I can see lots of great shots with multiple actors in the background of the action. The characters are a lot of fun (especially Jennifer Jason Leigh), the music is fantastic, and the dialogue, violence and humour are all on par with what we expect from Tarantino. Can’t wait to see Once Upon a Time in Hollywood next summer!
Review by @hitman____1 ★★★★★

“A Masterpiece”
Review by kemz ★★

I Highly disliked the Hateful Eight. I was expecting a fast paced, violent action film but instead I got the opposite... The exposition was slow to introduce the characters and build up the plot of the overall film. Long extended shots only made the film boring and wasn't use to effect.

fell asleep on two separate occasions when trying to finish the film.
Review by Brian_M ★★★★½

Dialogue heavy, set in one location and an actor's scenery chewing dream - this already feels like a Tarantino deep-cut, and I loved it!
Review by Matthew Sundberg ★★★★½

Like a crazy game of Secret Hitler played out in blood spattered glory. Violent, funny, clever, and cruel, what a great movie. Suspense is built yet not excessively, it's a fun movie rather than a horror drama. Though its run time is a good long while, The Hateful Eight makes up for it easily and the 2hrs 47min go by smoothly. Samuel L. Jackson is perfect from the minute you first see him, and he's not alone in the good acting department.
Review by Day_Drift ★★★½

Tarantino is captivating as always but the characters felt a little forced. Also...dingus.