The Hateful Eight

Movie review by Jeffrey Anderson, Common Sense Media
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Common Sense says

age 18+

Extreme violence, language in Tarantino's clever western.

R 2015 182 minutes

Parents say

age 17+

Based on 31 reviews

Kids say

age 15+

Based on 35 reviews

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age 18+

Very gross movie, a complete waste of time, really bad role models, I really dislike unnecessary nudist scenes, and the low values and moral of the characters. The movie doesn't show anything educational for kids. Parents need to understand that this movie is definitely for people over 18 year old; even if you try to show the worse of society, there are other movies that explain similar problems in better ways. Tarantino has much better movies, and because a movie has been made by a famous director, it doesn't mean that is a great movie. I am reviewing the movie not Tarantino. I would not recommend this film to any audience.

This title has:

Too much violence
Too much swearing
1 person found this helpful.
age 18+

disgusting - nothing may justify this

Definitely not for kids or teens! Not for most adults even. Starts off great, promises a tense mystery, and then suddenly boils down to an uninspired massacre. Well, I expected over-the-top violence at some points, but there are scenes and images here that are so sick and diabolical that it's just better to pass on this movie. Three examples (spoilers) ahead: 1) the infamous male oral sex scene - no comments; 2) two half-dead guys using their (presumably) last moments to hang a half-dead woman ("'cause she doesn't deserve to die from a bullet"); 3) when you finally learn who the "bad" bad guys are, this is not enough - you'll get to watch a very lenghty flasback of them arriving on spot earlier that day and killing a bunch of innocent people in cold blood (most victims begging for mercy in a puddle of blood before they die) - and what's the point of that in terms of the plot? And this is the worst thing - the whole movie is so pointless that it hurts. It was probably meant as pure "entertainment" but it stops being even that somewhere in the middle.

This title has:

Too much violence
Too much sex
Too much swearing
1 person found this helpful.

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