Top-Notch, Classic Tarantino Film

Rating: 10/10 (13 January 2016)

The Hateful Eight follows four hateful passengers and their stagecoach driver on their way to the town of Red Rock. Because of a terrible storm on their tails, the passengers are forced to stop at Minnie's Haberdashery and stay there for a few nights. There, they encounter four more hateful characters.
Because of how well-rounded this film is in almost all ways, The Hateful Eight deserves the full 10/10. The first half of the film is very character driven, with strong dialogue and great acting to help explain what each character is all about, where they are from, and who they are. The amount of hard work and time that Mr. Tarantino put into this screenplay is very apparent, and should definitely be recognized for creating yet another excellent screenplay. Throughout the entire film, racial issues are addressed and the tension between former union soldiers and confederate soldiers are apparent. Overall, the screenplay was very, very good all around. Mr. Tarantino and cinematographer Robert Richardson did an excellent job capturing the snowy, mountainous surroundings around the Haberdashery, especially beautiful in 70mm film. The acting in The Hateful Eight is probably one of the strongest acting performances by all the characters as a whole that cinema has seen in a while. Samuel Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Demian Blichir, Michael Madsen, and Bruce Dern, none of them blockbuster names, all did spectacular jobs along with the other characters introduced in the film. Lastly, the original score by Ennio Morricone in this film was fantastic. From the opening shot to the last shot of the film, Morricone's eerie, suspicious music really set the tone throughout the entire film. The Hateful Eight easily could be one of Tarantino's top three films as of 2016.
Direction: 9/10 Cinematography: 9/10 Acting: 10/10 Music: 10/10 Screenplay: 10/10
Overall: 10/10