Tries hard being the ala-Christie mystery thriller

Rating: 7/10 (23 August 2019)

"A bunch of travelers inhibited by a blizzard, seek refuge at a lone cabin - 'Minnie's Haberdashery'.
Little did they know how everyone there has a motive to fulfill."
The synopsis of this movie on paper does come across as a cinematic adaptation of any classic Agatha Christie novel, and is indeed intended to execute by Tarantino the way one would expect him to. It is a follow up of 'Django Unchained', set few years after the Civil War. The spoilsport is the editing, that perpetually gets the narrative freezing like the temperature outside the cabin, wasting a lot of time and the acting capabilities of its charismatic cast.
Relying heavily on a one man show by Tarantino's favorite Samuel L. Jackson, who delivers his best act post Pulp Fiction, this 'Who did it?' thriller spends little time in developing the characters to get me guessing the wrong doer. It rather gets repetitive and too indulgent perpetually to serve no purpose. The redeemer is its third act, delivering the signature neat Tarantino violence, but waiting a long 150 minutes for it to happen becomes boring, especially while revisiting the movie. It sometimes gets me wondering that the movie and its action could have ended straight, if the initial conversion were :
Major Marquis Warren - "Got room for one more?"
John Ruth - "No."