Underwhelming and not of Taratino's usual quality

Rating: 5/10 (3 February 2016)

First things first, I am usually a fan of QT.
I would have loved to have said how this was on par with Django Unchained but it falls well short of the mark.
It is at least 40 minutes longer than it needs to be. The padding at the start of the movie is mind numbing in the extreme. You could shed the entire first 25 minutes, miss out another half hour in the middle and you'd still end up in a position where you could watch the last half an hour without wondering what was happening.
Jennifer Jason Leigh is excellent. Walton Goggins is an actor of remarkable skill given the right role and I think he had that in this film. But that's it.
The endless drivel, the attempts at humour, the predictability of some of the deaths and the oh-so obvious nature in which the film is going to end (think boring, you'll have nailed it) is such a disappointment.
You'll watch a lot worse films in 2015/16. But I don't think there'll be many that you expected more from and left so bereft of any emotion other than "was that it?".
As for Kurt Russell, well between The Bone Tomahawk and TH8, I'm beginning to wonder if he is specialising in over-acting characters nowadays. Samuel L. Jackson does his duty admirably, but the character is shallow and lost of any real appeal.
Tatum may as well have not shown up. Madsen is Madsen (I'm not a fan but he acted well).
I need to reserve my biggest criticism for the torrid use of Tim Roth though. How on earth can you script a man so stereotypically and then lose everything that makes him so brilliant, so easily? I won't be the first to say it and I certainly won't be the last, it is indeed The Hateful Waste of Acting.
I've given it a 5 because there are parts that made me laugh and that is no mean feat these days. If it hadn't been for that, I'm not even sure I'd have wasted my energy writing this.