For a Tarantino film, it's a bit of a letdown

Rating: 5/10 (5 August 2019)

I just watched "The Hateful Eight" for the first time last night. I'm a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino and I think no director can make a movie quite like he can. Having said all that, I found "The Hateful Eight" to be a bit of a letdown because the first hour is so slow to get moving and then when it picks up in the second hour, it's better but there isn't a lot of memorable moments.
Here's a brief look
-Samuel L Jackson is a bounty hunter transporting dead criminals in the middle of a blizzard and then runs into a stagecoach that has another bounty hunter (Kurt Russell) transporting a rebel prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to be hanged. Later on, they meet an outlaw (Walton Goggins) who just became the town sheriff.
-Then they take shelter in a general store where the owners are nowhere to be found but they find four more strangers all with a secret. Among them are Bruce Dern as a former General, Michael Madsen as a suspicious cowboy and Tim Roth as the town hangman.
After they're all introduced, something happens and it turns into a whodunnit/stage play.
My basic problems with this movie are as follows
-There are scenes that just happen and there isn't a whole lot of back story to them
-This movie has double the amount of N-words as "Django Unchained". The big difference being Tarantino wanted to depict the brutal subject of slavery so, while I don't condone the word, I felt it made sense for "Django". Here, I felt they were saying it just to say it so it was really unnecessary.
-Every other scene involves Jennifer Jason Leigh getting punched in the face.
-Lastly, there's a sight gag that involves the door being too hard to open. It was funny the first couple times but it just kept going and it had nowhere else to go.
I know a lot of people loved it but compared to his other movies, I found it disappointing.