I think that my initial lacklustre enthusiasm after seeing the first teaser trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film, The Hateful Eight likely had more to do with the film’s genre than anything else.

Admittedly, the Western will probably never be my first choice in film genre. Nevertheless, I have absolutely zero regrets after watching The Hateful Eight and Tarantino’s previous movie, Django Unchained (2012), also a Western.

Good servings of expert story-telling, entertaining dialogue, great music and camerawork are all very present in The Hateful Eight – A film I consider a well-sculpted two-plus hours of suspenseful entertainment with an ending you will love.

The cinematography in the movie also manages to stand out even though everything in the film happens at precisely 3 locations.

I liked the pace and the way things really started to build up, especially around the moment that the audience started to hear ‘Silent Night’ on the piano. The tension and suspense at this point are really something to experience, and part of the reason Tarantino is considered a master filmmaker.

If you haven’t already guessed, I think that The Hateful Eight is a movie worth seeing. Certainly, one I’ll be watching again very soon. I don’t know if it’s quite Tarantino’s best, but perhaps that would depend on one’s preferred movie genre.

Walton Goggins’s portrayal of Sheriff Chris Mannix, Tim Roth’s Oswaldo Mobray and  Samuel L. Jackson’s Major Marquis Warren are my favourite of The Hateful Eight characters. The first two are because of the humour, and the latter, thanks to the dialogue, style and undeniable cool.

Watch The Hateful Eight for the storytelling and filmmaking mastery. Lastly, if you can make out the first lines of dialogue that come out of the mouth of Jody, played by Channing Tatum, please let me know in the comments below because I really tried yet failed to make sense of any of it.

Happy Film Loving,

G