I wish there was more in this tarantino film

Rating: 8/10 (24 March 2019)

Quentin Tarantino's new movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is coming out this summer. I'm super stoked for it and I want to watch all of the movies he has written/directed and one of them is The Hateful Eight, the movie I am reviewing today.
I absolutely love Tarantino's style of filmmaking. The dialogue is fluid and very catchy. Even in his not so great films, his dialogue is still so damn good. Although, some of his movies have dialogue that doesn't propel the story along, and sometimes feels like a waste of time. I believe Pulp Fiction and The Hateful Eight suffers from that. The dialogue is still good, but it feels like it's just there just to be funny, with no other purpose. This is my biggest issue with The Hateful Eight. The second act has the most pointless but good dialogue.
Like all Tarantino films, there is exquisite acting in this movie. Samuel L. Jackson has a top notch performance in this film, it could be his second best performance in a Tarantino film, behind Pulp Fiction. Kurt Russell has such a great performance in this movie, he's so good. Everyone else in this movie is also stupendous, especially Channing Tatum. When I saw his name in the opening credits, I was like "wow, really, Channing Tatum, c'mon Tarantino you can do better than that." And when Channing Tatum came onto the screen, I was really shook that his acting is as good as everyone else's performance in this movie. I did not expect him to be this good in this movie, and I was proven wrong. I didn't take Channing Tatum seriously as an actor until I watched him in this movie. Bravo, Channing Tatum.
My biggest issue with this movie is the second act. The first act was decent, the third act was amazing, and the second act just wasn't that good. The second act is filled with pointless dialogue with nothing propelling the story. It was sort of boring for most of the second act. It was just characters sitting in one space doing almost nothing. If the whole movie was as good as the third act, this film would've been a masterpiece. The third act was intriguing, fast paced (in a good way) and with lots of twists and turns. The first act was the introductory act where all the characters get to know each other, and that was fun to see. This movie was a bit long, but if the second act kept up with the other acts, it would've been great. 8/10