Wunderbar.....

Rating: 8/10 (20 January 2013)

Dr. King Schultz buys the freedom of a slave, Django, and trains him with the intent to make him his deputy bounty hunter, but both have common intentions..
Instead, he is led to the site of Django's wife who is under the hands of Calvin Candie, a ruthless plantation owner...
One cannot deny the fact that Tarantino can write a brilliant screenplay, no matter what the quality of film (Inglorious good, Death Proof not so) there is fluid, almost poetic dialogue, that keeps you fixed to the screen no matter what the actors are talking about.
For example, Inglorious and the opening, Pulp Fiction and the pocket watch, and Reservoir Dogs and the beauty of Madonna.
Here is no different. From the explanation to the Marshall why King killed the Sheriff, to the facing screen explanation of a slave camp by Jackson near the finale. Ir's all electric stuff and is as good, if not better than what he has done before.
Again, one thing the director can do, is get performances from actors like no one else.
Dicaprio has never been better than he is in this, his Candie one of the most colourful and sadistic of Tarantino characters I have ever seen, and Jackson too, funny and Scary in equal measures, it's a shame the Academy hasn't recognised him for this, it's his best performance.
Waltz is on a par with Inglorious, and ironically Foxx is the weakest link here, having the blandest dialogue, and not really owning the film until Candie and King are long gone.
The action is intense, and the final act in the house is well worth sitting through the run time.
And this is one of the films biggest problems, it's way too long. we have a 105 minute cracking movie about vengeance, with an hour of bothersome exposition thrown in. Yes, we like the references to everything exploitation, but those movies didn't feel like a chore every now and again.
Then we have the obligatory director cameo, which is terrible, and ruins the flow of the film slightly.
Other than that, it's still a great movie, with some career best performances and dialogue that is too die for.