User blog comment:Mikemacdee/So Much Hate for Hateful Eight?/@comment-27838637-20160725104614

I'm usually a big fan of Tarantino flms, but this one just didn't appeal to me. I think alot of others got that feeling too.

I liked the beginning of the film, where we were introduced to all the characters. In fact, I enjoyed the whole movie right up until Kurt Russell bit the dust.

It wasn't because I liked Kurt's character so much that his death ruined the experience. It was that the buildup just didn't pay off in my opinion. The film was brooding perfectly, and the suspense was excellent. After the coffee was poisoned, all that was lost. It is a strange thing to explain - but I felt that the rest of the film was both rushed, and also dragged out too long.

The murder mystery was rushed, and the whole backstory as to why the murders occurred was just dragged out too long. I was enjoying the mystery, and I just don't think the mystery paid off all. Not to mention, I hated almost every character except Tim Roth and Walton Goggins (but Tim Roth was underused). Samuel L Jackson was a disgusting character that I wanted dead throughout the entire film. I understand others liked him, but I just didn't like him at all.

Perhaps it was that the film had been recommended to me by a fried who said it was a really good mystery movie. Also, being a Tarantino film, I must have had my expectations too high.

All in all - the acting and directing was top-notch, but the mystery just fell flat and the potential this had to be an excellent movie was missed. Instead we got an average film. In comparison to all Tarantino's other movies, this was pretty bad.

A_O.