Quentin Tarantino film fans have just days left to watch one of his most underrated films on Amazon Prime. His western mystery The Hateful Eight was first released in January 2016 and features the director’s trademark all-star cast. Big names such as Samuel L Jackson, Channing Tatum, Kurt Russel and Tim Roth all produce some memorable performances that come together for tense and at times chaotic three hours.
The film begins in the baron, snow-covered landscape of Wyoming as a blizzard approaches. Soon, a bounty hunter and army veteran played by Jackson hitches a ride on a carriage and finds himself taking refuge from the storm in a coach stop. As the snow storm sets in, a bizarre group all finds themselves sharing Minnie’s Haberdashery where they agree to wait out the blizzard together. The rest of the film plays out in the lodge with a tense series of twists and turns leaving you on the edge of your seat and classic Tarantino style.
Although for anyone ready to grab the remote, they should be warned it contains all the hallmarks of the director, including some very explicit language and lots of over-the-top gore that many viewers may find too much.
Despite not being one of his best-reviewed films, The Hateful Eight is perhaps one of his most underrated. The film still received a very respectable 74% on Rotten Tomatoes, with audiences rating the film even higher at 77%.
Leaving a five-star Google review, one commenter said: “Well, this was the last movie on my Tarantino bingewatch list for the reviews I’ve read earlier about this one, but oh man, in what style a bingewatch comes to an end.
“Intense, INTENSE scenes, lofty playful dialogues will keep you hooked to the screen from beginning to end. We all know how Tarantino movies build up, in fragments, finally leading to a converging climax; the promise of it is real in this one. I highly recommend it; do not cross it off your list.”
Although some viewers were more negative towards the western epic, with its extremely long running time and intense gore proving too much.
One reviewer who rated it two stars said: “Horribly violent, bloody and wicked. Just confirms my opinion that Tarantino’s addiction is to unnecessary and excessive violence.”
But for fans still wanting to give the film a watch, it will be leaving Amazon Prime in three weeks on June 8.