Review of The Hateful Eight (2015) by Criviewer — 12 Jan 2016

Way to long and intertwined. The spectator can't be expected to follow so deeply into supposed plot connections that the writer may have had.

It uses a lot of material from Django Unchained both in regards to overall atmosphere and in regards to actual plot devices. For example, the old "everyone dies shooting each other" trick, so often seen in other movies (including Django), although it is spectacular, here leads to a feeling of overuse and boredom.

Great ending. It is devious, evil and well connected. The characters have hilariously evil and sometimes macabre moments. The last 30 minutes probably make the core of why this movie could be memorable. Also, great acting from Samuel L Jakson and Walton Goggins, psychologically very intense and unorthodox, even outright perverted and sinister.

Overall: great movie, but definitely less than Django Unchained (which it seems to try to surpass).