Opportunity Squandered

Rating: 6/10 (9 May 2017)

Great director. Excellent ensemble cast. Such a unique plot! Not to mention the 70 mm Panavision experience (in selected theaters).
With all this going for it, "The Hateful Eight" had all the elements to become one of those movies that excels in so many areas. On paper, by design, this movie had it all.
Unfortunately, everything the movie had going for it was squandered by the gratuitous violence embedded across multiple scenes. Many of the scenes in the movie could have benefited from a "less is more" approach which would have enhanced the suspense and made this the classic thriller-western it deserved to be.