Everything is great, just the story is slow and lacking.

Rating: 7/10 (4 January 2016)

Very early on in the film there is this beautiful close up shot of the horses pulling the waggon through the snow, and I thought to myself 'this is going to be great'.
And it was. The cinematography, the score, the characters, the acting (Tim Roth especially), all of it was top notch. But the story and the length of the movie let it down. The movie spent an hour introducing the first four characters, which could arguably have been shortened to fifteen or twenty minutes at most. Things only get interesting at about the one and three quarter hours mark when the tension starts to rise between the characters and all hell breaks loose, becoming more distinctly Tarantino like (you'll know what I mean), rather than a low budget western made in the fifties.
All in all, it's worth a watch if you're into 'who done it?' types of movies, but don't go into it thinking you're going to get Kill Bill meets the American West, like my friends did.