Showing posts with label Quentin Tarantino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quentin Tarantino. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

The Hateful Eight Review: Tarantino's Eighth Film is a Dynamic and Stylish Western

If there is one director who knows how to stand out it is Quentin Tarantino. Since 1992 the outlandish director has been a household name in the movie world with his various hits like Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Bastards and Django Unchained. Now in theaters is the eighth film from Tarantino: The Hateful Eight. Following the footsteps of his previous film, Tarantino sets his latest work in the old of the old west. Early in the movie's production, controversy circled The Hateful Eight as Tarantino cancelled the project due to the script being leaked online. However, after doing a live reading of the script, Tarantino changed his mind and production for the film began in 2014. So is The Hateful Eight another hit from Quentin Tarantino, or was this western better left out in the cold?

The Hateful Eight centers on bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) taking convicted criminal Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to be hanged in the town of Red Rock. After meeting fellow bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L Jackson) and Red Rock's new sheriff and former Lost-Causer: Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a blizzard prevents the group from reaching the town and they are forced to find shelter in a stagecoach lounge called Minnie's Haberdashery. There the group meets the other guests: Oswaldo Mobary (Tim Roth), Bob (Damien Bichir), Joe Gage (Michael Madsen) and General Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern). As the residents of Minnie's Haberdashery are buried in snow, John quickly comes to realize that one of the eight is not who he says he is.