Don't Pay Attention to the Negative Reviews...

Rating: 8/10 (29 May 2019)

No, this isn't Tarantino's "best", but even his worst film is still better than the majority of crap that gets released into theaters. Tarantino is a director for people who love "movies", not "film", and he makes movies for people who love movies, too. I happen to be a fan of both movies and film, so I am able to appreciate movies that have been made just to entertain an audience rather than just those that contain a message that the viewer should learn. "Django Unchained", by the above description, is an incredibly well-made movie.
The acting is top notch and the writing contains all of Tarantino's trademarks that we have loved since "Reservoir Dogs" introduced audiences to this unique talent back in 1992. Yes, the violence has been magnified to ludicrous and even comedic heights, but that only serves to remove the viewer from the more horrific atrocities depicted on screen. I happen to feel that this movie ranks in the lower half of QT's filmography, but that in no way means that I think it is a bad film. No, I still love it. It's also a little long, having been the first film he made since the passing of his longtime editor, and it could be shortened to quicken the pacing a little bit. But I'll be damned if I can think of any scenes in it that could or should have been cut from its heavy 165-minute runtime.
Having read a great deal of the other reviews of this movie on IMDb, I felt compelled to add my own, because there is a common thread that unites all of the one-star reviews. Once you see it and identify it, you definitely don't want to be associated with people like that.