First mooted on the back of Django Unchained in 2013, only for an early draft to leak online and put the whole project into doubt, The Hateful Eight has finally made its way to the big screen. And it's a bloody good thing Quentin Tarantino didn't let that major hiccup get in the way, because it's brilliant. QT's eighth and, if recent reaffirmations are to believed, third-from-last film, The Hateful Eight is a beautiful, tense, expansive and, yes, violent film that sees the director tackle a mixture of new themes and long-held tropes. Needless to say, it's pretty great, and for various reasons needs to be seen on the biggest, widest screen possible. We all know what to expect from a Tarantino film - whip-sharp dialogue delivered by perfectly picked actors creating tense scenes that build and build to unbearable levels - and The Hateful Eight delivers on all that as well as you'd hope. But there's also a lot more that it does better than his most recent works and some new ideas that make it more than just another hit; it's one of his best movies. In fact, when mulling it over, it may be his best film since Pulp Fiction. Here's why.
