Django Unchained
The first part of this review is easy. If you are a Tarantino fan, especially if you are male, then you'll love this movie and don't need to read on. Go see it already. Then if you like but don't feel Tarantino is god in everything he does, then you'll mostly like Django Unchained. Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill Vol. 1 are my two favorites but the rest I can take or leave. Django Unchained was almost my new favorite up until the 2:20 mark where it should have ended but then started going on and on to where I almost didn't care anymore. Luckily the last 10 minutes picks back up but this could have been a great 2:30 movie instead of a nearly 3 hour movie.
All things considered, knowing the key character is a slave and other characters are slavers, this is not a movie about slavery and revenge. At it's heart, Django Unchained is an old style western, complete with landscape, guns, horses, scenery, and great music. Tarantino is the master of building up the pace, quickening the heart, and then bringing us back down before doing it again.
Is there blood? Yes. Does it splatter? Yes. Is that okay? Yes. Hard, cruel but yes, it's still okay. Jamie Foxx as the man who ends up partnering with bounty hunter Christoph Waltz, does a fantastic job as Django. Django is a slave, bounty hunter, man who wants to rescue his wife. The two take us for a ride through the west and the old south before we meet up with plantation owner Calvin Candie, played by Leonardo DeCaprio. Then the three begin their parlay. I can see why Christoph Waltz was nominated for a Golden Globe but I am baffled why Jamie Foxx was not. This was his movie and he nailed it.
Django is mostly a solid storyline with minimal Tarantino meandering. Towards the end, the twists and turns go a bit over the top until we're reigned back in for the ending which was satisfying.
Who should see this? Tarantino fans, action fans, and maybe people who are on overload from sugary sweet movies and need a break. Who know who you are.
All things considered, knowing the key character is a slave and other characters are slavers, this is not a movie about slavery and revenge. At it's heart, Django Unchained is an old style western, complete with landscape, guns, horses, scenery, and great music. Tarantino is the master of building up the pace, quickening the heart, and then bringing us back down before doing it again.
Is there blood? Yes. Does it splatter? Yes. Is that okay? Yes. Hard, cruel but yes, it's still okay. Jamie Foxx as the man who ends up partnering with bounty hunter Christoph Waltz, does a fantastic job as Django. Django is a slave, bounty hunter, man who wants to rescue his wife. The two take us for a ride through the west and the old south before we meet up with plantation owner Calvin Candie, played by Leonardo DeCaprio. Then the three begin their parlay. I can see why Christoph Waltz was nominated for a Golden Globe but I am baffled why Jamie Foxx was not. This was his movie and he nailed it.
Django is mostly a solid storyline with minimal Tarantino meandering. Towards the end, the twists and turns go a bit over the top until we're reigned back in for the ending which was satisfying.
Who should see this? Tarantino fans, action fans, and maybe people who are on overload from sugary sweet movies and need a break. Who know who you are.
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