Lesser work from a great director

Rating: 6/10 (28 April 2020)

Only a Great Director (TM.) would have the gall to make a movie like this. If this were a book it would be a short story or a novella at most. As a Tarantino movie it's three hours long.
The movie also attempts to be a mystery, and being this unwound is fatal to it. Mysteries need to be taut, so you pay attention. There were times during "The Hateful Eight" where I stopped watching.
I'll never know what happened to Tarantino's ability to write good dialogue. "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction" were nothing but quotable lines. Where were the quotable lines in any of the movies he has made since? How many lines can you remember from them, if any at all?
Tarantino made a great movie with "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", and an absolutely appalling one with "Death Proof". "The Hateful Eight" is like the bridge between the two. It may not have memorable dialogue or characters, but at least they don't prattle on about god-knows-what for an hour before getting killed, only to introduce a bunch more vacuous motor-mouths who do the same thing.
It's still very well made, well acted, and feels like a lesser work from a great director.