Django Unchained
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Samuel L. Jackson
Rated R for strong graphic violence throughout, a vicious fight, language, and some nudity.
Ah, Quentin Tarantino. He is one crazy dude and an even crazier filmmaker. No one else can take genre films and totally transform them the way Tarantino does. This time, he takes on a Western, but one that is mainly set in the South and dealing a great deal with slavery.
The plot is fairly straight forward and amounts to nothing more than a revenge thriller. And a revenge thriller at the hands of Tarantino is sure to be ultra-violent. The blood is abundant throughout the first half of the movie, but then walls are literally painted with gallons of it by the end.
The highlight of the movie was when Big Daddy (Don Johnson) leads a raid as KKK members. Despite the fact that these characters are racist pigs, the scene is absolutely hilarious. Again, only Tarantino can make a KKK raid hysterical. The first hour or so is extremely entertaining. The middle of the film slows down a bit, but is carried by Leonardo DiCaprio's performance as plantation owner Monsier Candie. He can quickly flip the switch from being charming to intimidating and very scary. The end is an absolute bloodbath. Django felt like it could have been about twenty minutes shorter and would have been better off, particularly towards the end.
My personal favorite film of Tarantino's is still Inglourious Basterds, but if you are a fan of Tarantino then you will definitely have to catch this one. It is overlong and excessively violent, but was still an entertaining and wild ride.
RATING: B+
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