The Hateful Eight

 

     The Eighth film by Quentin Tarantino. Since the film was announced, I was looking up for big and small news and updates that came out. With all my enthusiasm I looked up for the shows on 25th December 2015, only to know that I have to wait for 21 days more coz India Release was on 15th Jan 2016. Finally, Yesterday I saw The Hateful Eight. 

     The story was pretty much told in the trailers. A bounty Hunter, John Ruth (Kurt Russel) is bringing in his bounty 3 dead and one alive, Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to a city where she's to be hanged and to collect his bounty. He is one by one accompanied by two more passengers and they halt at 'Minnis Haberdashery' a hotel to avoid storm where they have four more people to share the place and spend time with. Slowly they find old and new connections to each other and with each personality weird and crazy in its own manner, for their respective selfish intentions, deal with each other in their own special Tarantino's alter-ego's style. 

     The performances are pretty much good. The people around the Minni's do remind us of Reservoir Dogs, who are now old. Make up is the best part of the film. And Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth and Walton Goggins are impressive. 

     The thing with this film is that there is too much of talking. It seems like we are watching a play that is going to change its set after a certain point. Plus, Tarantino characters maintain their South American Country side accent as the film is placed in an isolated area when Abraham Lincoln was the president of USA. They speak taking their time and pauses. A lot of 'Glorious 70mm Ultra Panavision film meters' are printed with much of reactions, expressions and bodily actions. At a certain point we don't understand if the story really has something to it? 

Character's Die gracefully. 

Every gun-shot is the alarm that brings you out from the half felt creamy dream that you are watching with sound of the dialogues very much low and ambience comparatively louder. 

The good thing is that the dramatic tension that Tarantino creates, the build-up that makes you tell yourself to calm your racing heart down, coz nothing's gonna happen until the writer wants it to happen. 

     The track used in trailer is not there in the film as much as it is needed, and hence you don't get the "Ohh damn Fucked sons of the bitches.." Kick that you get in Inglorious Bastards when the Doormen are killed, or when the whole theater is shot dead and we see the laughing lady in the smoke. Or for that matter the feeling that you get when John Travolta Pushes the antidote needle and Uma Thurman gets up to say "something." Or the Final Quattro gun-pointing in reservoir dogs. And last but not the least when the whole candy land is bombed and burned by Django.

A few action sequences are killer... a little of the twist is good too. The Murders are just the way Tarantino would film them.

All in all...

you need terrible amount of patience to watch a few good things, which are surely there. Still ultimate satisfaction of Tarantino effect on you is missing.

Verdict - 6.5/10