another Tarantino revenge fantasy - boring!

Rating: 3/10 (14 May 2013)

Well, if that's your cup of poison, be my guest. Waltz is good, appealing even. He's certainly the most watchable actor in the movie. DiCaprio is better than expected, in a truly horrible role. A lesser actor would have made Massa Candie a clown.
But the picture's a mess. I really think if a cartoon festival of gore is to your liking, you'd do better to watch Kill Bill again and skip this one. At least that picture had some narrative drive, and a heroine you could root for, and terrific choreography to recommend it. Even the bad guys in Kill Bill were entertaining. Django Unchained has none of that. It's not just another revenge fantasy - it's a *degenerate* revenge fantasy. It's like somebody doing bad Tarantino.