Tarantino Goes Wild West with Crazy 'Hateful Eight' Ty Burr - Boston Globe
go to original January 6, 2016

The Hateful Eight - Official Teaser Trailer (The Weinstein Company)

Leave it to Quentin Tarantino to bury a plea for interracial brotherhood way, way down inside a bloody, nearly three-hour revenge western.

But this director has long been American cinema’s imp of the perverse, hasn’t he? Like Scorsese’s bratty kid brother, he has veins made of pure celluloid, and he spreads his geek-boy movie love across the screen in wild, anarchic daubs of action-painting. His enthusiasm would come to little if Tarantino weren’t a born filmmaker. But it also means he can concoct a massive widescreen homage to the 70mm roadshow prestige movies of the 1950s and ’60s — and use it to film eight people talking in a room.

Well, also cussing, shooting, stabbing, double-crossing, double-double-crossing, and dying, all in ways you’d never quite considered before. This is Tarantino. And it’s very entertaining, even when it’s entertainingly vile, which happens a lot in this overlong movie’s extended third act. (Or fifth chapter. Or something.) A Tarantino movie remains a happy occasion for fans of our less respected film genres, of creative ultra-violence and creative argument, and of underappreciated performers allowed to flower anew under Master Quentin’s sanguine care.

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