The Hateful Eight Lives Up To Its Title

I really like the title of movies such as Man On Fire, The Empire Strikes Back and Inglorious Bastards.

Writer/director Quentin Tarantino has given me a new favorite title with The Hateful  Eight as it lives up to it’s title as the characters in this movie are mean and hateful.

It is a pure Tarantino movie with great dialogue, strange characters and weird/strange violence.

The Hateful Eight is Tarantino's 8th film. He has a knack to have his characters talking and inducing violence that turns into a great cinematic experience.

The storyline takes place in post–Civil War Wyoming as John” The Hangman” Ruth played by Kurt Russell is handcuffed to outlaw Daisy” The Prisoner” Domergue played by Jennifer Jason Leigh. He is bringing her to a town called Red Rocks for a $10,000 reward for murder.

They are riding in a stagecoach that is just ahead of a blizzard. During the trip, they come upon a stranded man with dead bodies. The man is bounty hunter named Major Marquis Warren played by Samuel L Jackson. Ruth allows Major and his bodies to travel on the stagecoach because they had met before.

The stagecoach encounters another man another stranded man named Chris” The Sheriff” Mannix play by Walton Goggins. He says he is the new Sheriff of Red Rocks.

The blizzard forces the stagecoach to stop at Minnie’s Haberdashery where they meet four more men, Bob “The Mexican play by Demian Bichir, Oswaldo” The Little Man” played by Tim Roth, Joe” The Cow Puncher” Cage played by Michael Madsen and ex-General Sanford”The Confederate” Smithers played by Bruce Dern.

All give off that shady vibe.

The Hateful Eight is a great “who did what” instead of “who done it “movie  There's a lot of deception going on in the movie. In true Tarantino fashion, everything is not what it seems to be. Most of the movie takes place in one location.

I enjoy that Tarantino used chapter title cards like he did in his Kill Bill series. It feels like we are watching the novel

There are great performances in The Hateful Eight. I really enjoyed Jennifer Jason Leigh as Daisy. She was downright filthy wonderful. As Daisy, Leigh was nasty and strong. I wish there had been more of her back story and how she ended up being handcuffed to Ruth.

The Hateful Eight has excessive use of the N-word which made me feel uncomfortable at times. The violence was crazy, but didn't gross me out with heads and limbs being shot off.

If you are Quentin Tarantino fan, you will not be disappointed. If you're not, you will still enjoy The Hateful Eight