Django Unchained Movie Review

Directed By : Quentin Tarantino

Starring : Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, and Leonardo DiCaprio

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Django Unchained Movie Review

  Django Unchained takes place in pre-civil war

America. It is the story of Dr. King Schultz 

(Christoph Waltz), a bounty hunter disguised

as a dentist, who in his search for the notorious 

Brittle Brothers. He seeks the help of someone who

can identify them since he can not.  After a gun

battle with slave traders, Django (Jamie Foxx),

who can identify the Brittle Brothers, becomes a

free man and joins Schultz. Schultz is the mentor

when it comes to art of a gun fight, and Django is

a more than able student, who too, soon possesses

the deadly talent of wielding a firearm.

  After hunting down the Brittle Brothers, and finding

them on a plantation owned by Big Daddy (Don Johnson),

Django and Schultz soon continue their journey, which is to 

now find Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), Django's wife, and 

rescue her from Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) who owns 

the infamous Candieland Plantation.

    The racism is difficult, if not, painful to watch.  There is, of

course, like most Tarantino films, a lot of blood and gore.

  Jamie Foxx is a lot like Uma Thurman's character in Kill Bill,

very one-dimensional, and focused. Christoph Waltz is excellent

as a dentist/bounty hunter, who faces violence and the wrath of

evil, yet maintains a wicked sense of humor. 

  Samuel L. Jackson plays Stephen, the house slave at Candieland,

in what is one his more memorable, disturbing roles as a 

manipulative mean old man, who appears satisfied with things

just exactly as they are.

  In this ode to spaghetti westerns, Tarantino delivers precisely what

his fans are counting on and does so brilliantly.

  Django is not Tarantino's best work, but he has already set the bar 

pretty high with his previous masterpieces Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and 

Jackie Brown.

Bill Palmer

www.theglobaldigital.com