Good but needs editing big time

Rating: 7/10 (31 January 2019)

Let me first say that I'm a huge Tarantino fan. I pretty much love the plots, intensity, actors and extreme violence in all of his movies. The Hateful Eight had some good plot twists but overall it was a bit disappointing. First of all it's way, way, too long, 3 hrs, 7 minutes. If they cut out an hour of the movie (maybe 90 minutes even), and turned into a fast thriller I would have bumped the rating up to an 8. There are definitely some scenes and conversations that could have been cut and it wouldn't have been a big deal. The second problem is that 95% of the movie takes place in the cabin. There is some brief but spectacular cinematography of Wyoming (nee Colorado). I definitely wanted to see more, I was going stir crazy in that cabin. How about throwing in a few flashback scenes of the Domergue gang in action or making it into a town somewhere? Overall if you're a Tarantino fan it's worth watching the movie just for the great actors, violence and plot twists, but the first 90 minutes are pretty slow.