"Keeping You At A Disadvantage, Is An Advantage I Intend To Keep"

Rating: 8/10 (10 May 2019)

Tarantino's best since, "Inglorious Basterds" and one of the best westerns in recent memory. Excellent direction, screenplay, setting, cinematography, costume, score and acting. All of the cast deliver top notch performances. Russell, Leigh, Jackson, Roth and Goggins in particular stand out creating some very memorable characters. The plot is set in post - Civil War Wyoming when a well known bounty hunter known as, "The Hangman" and his current prisoner Daisy are joined by another bounty hunter and a man claiming to be the new sheriff of the town their heading to. The four are forced to stop at the well known Minnie's Haberdashery due to an impending blizzard. There they encounter four strangers already inside the stop. Things don't seem right to some of the eight including the fact that Minnie isn't there. That's where the mystery and interragation of the eight strangers begins. The plot is clever, funny, gritty, dark, brutal, violent, unique, duplicit and has a phenomenal ending. The dialogue is unparalleled and you'll hear fans of the film quote such lines as the Hangman's, "Keeping you at a disadvantage is an advantage I intend to keep". That line could be relative to Tarantino and his contemporaries. The film is captivating throughout which is difficult to do when most of the plot takes place in one setting. That's the brilliance of and speaks volumes of a true artist like Tarantino. This is the best of his westerns and is one of the very best in the genre.