The Hateful Eight - Tarantino's BLOODy Best!!

Tarantino has always been never afraid to show the blood and gore splattered and dancing in his frames right from the famous or rather infamous scene in Reservoir Dogs where an ear is simply severed with a razor. In fact, just like Reservoir Dogs in which 8 men planned a heist, The Hateful Eight has also 8 notorious people who had taken refuge from the blinding blizzard in Minnie's Haberdashery. 

The film is set just after the American Civil War and is divided into chapters. I am not going to go in detail on the storyline to spoil the fun and suspense for you. Do head ahead to the nearest theatre and enjoy every 180 minute of QT's 8th film in all its splendour.

In the first half of the movie, QT rolls the dice and assembles his ensemble cast with some rib-tickling and intelligent dialogues and actions in Minnie's Haberdashery. As the tension in the first half slowly builds up, you get that ominous feel that some one is going to die for sure but who? I was scratching my head for that million dollar question and got the mind-boggling answer just moments before the interval served to the audience in a chilling way. Samuel L Jackson as Warren was simply unbeatable with his powerful dialogue delivery matching and syncing up equally with his sinister and maniacal laughs. But, there was one person who gave SLJ a run for his money - Daisy Domergue. Jennifer Jason Leigh as Daisy was the cynosure of this entire movie with her breath-taking mannerisms and expressions. Even in the most serious of scenes where you want to feel for her, she makes you roar with laughter through her witty dialogues and countenance. 

The second half can be best described as barbaric and brutal for which QT is well-known in all his 8 films. Just like water is sprayed from a water sprayer, the bullets were showered from the pistols with ease thus soaking everyone in their own blood. This is where QT ensured that he not only handled the aestheticization of violence with his traditional Tarantino-esque style and flamboyance but also kept the element of mystery close to the heart of the movie itself by revealing Daisy's secret in a rather humorous way. Kudos to him for imagining such a heavy scene in that fashion.

The other 2 strong pillars of the movie, apart from QT and the cast, are Ennio Morricone's eerie and mysterious background score and the cinematography by Robert Richardson who had captured the spectacular landscapes in a beautiful way. 

The Hateful Eight - a typical Tarantino movie but quite long - 3 hours film - that will definitely make you admire when you walk out of the theatre on QT's ingenuity to handle yet another Spaghetti Western confined to only a single room filled with 8 vermins who are left to their gruesome fates.