Better directed than written, but still a Tarantino classic

Rating: 8/10 (1 January 2016)

The movie is a whooping two hours and forty five minutes and, to put it mildly, it's not fast paced. That being said, the shots are grand, the acting very good and the story weird enough to make it a classic. I mean, what could possibly go wrong, with Tarantino directing and writing a movie about Kurt Russel stuck in a frozen unforgiving place with a bunch of people, some not being what the seem they are?
Inappropriate The Thing references aside, the only issue with this film is that it is slow and it doesn't really have a resolution or character evolution or, one might say, a point. He made this story solely about the characters and that might make the viewer feel a bit bored and certainly a bit confused about some tactical decisions characters make (sometimes it seems that they do things just in order to let themselves speak later).
Not Tarantino's best, but a good movie nonetheless. I feel that he outshone himself in directing the film, but the story could have been better.