Dreary, Depressing, Tedious.... Sporadically Entertaining

Rating: 5/10 (2 December 2018)

If Tarantino directed this film I think it would be titled "The Hateful Three"--- but maybe the queen character isn't quite as hateful as she is pitiable.
There were times when I didn't want to follow any of their lives just because they were so abhorrent. Usually when people are unlikeable I want to follow them if the comedy is working. In this case, I laughed at very few of the film's jokes. A lot of this story seemed like a study in psychopathy-- especially with Emma Stone's character.
Also, the man who pursued Stone's character reminded me of so many *modern* American men who pursue soulless and uninterested American women just because they're pretty-- women who eventually make cuckolds of them. I rarely flirt with any woman, and when she shows the slightest sign of disinterest to me I withdraw my attention to her immediately. So even many of the male characters in this movie were nauseating to me.
The final shots in the film are tedious to the extreme. When directors got close shots of Steve McQueen's facial expressions they knew that he could emote so much without even speaking lines. In this case, with the extreme closeups of Stone and Olivia Colman, it's painfully pretentious. It did nothing for me.
It has merits, though. The acting is good, and it's generally entertaining regardless of its despicable characters. I wasn't really thinking, "when is this thing going to end?" until its final ten minutes.