Rubbish

Rating: 2/10 (9 April 2013)

After 20 years, Tarantino is still editing his movies like Pulp Fiction... While it worked for the 90's masterpiece, it's just plain ridiculous nowadays. Many people call this movie messy, and it is. First of all, if you want to do such a movie, almost 3 hours is way too long...
Tarantino is only doing homage movies, just more and more badly each time... This one is supposed to be a Sergio Leone homage, but it's more like a parody : Scary Movie in the far-west or something. There's not an inch of depth in this film. There's not an ounce of script. A black slave liberated by a bounty hunter, and then they want to save the black man's wife. That's it. The rest is just gunfire, explosions, and boring dialogs. Sergio Leone's movies had depth : depth of character, depth of landscape, a well written script, and you weren't bored.
Django is hip, and that's why it gets such a (ridiculous) high score on IMDb. Blood everywhere, snappy lines, hip hop music, bad guys killed, good guys winning... At no point in the movie does this feel like a story (real or not). You can clearly see the actors don't believe in it, and are just having fun. Di Caprio is probably the worst, totally out of place as a Southern plantation owner. The violence is extremely gratuitous, and the "harsh" scenes where good guy get tortured/killed have absolutely no dramatic effect whatsoever. Again, it just feels wrong, out of place, and even offensive, turning the history of slavery into a joke.
Tarantino should just stop making movies for fun, and should start by letting other people write his scripts... Maybe then we'll have a story.