Another mouth dropping, eye popping Tarintino experience

Rating: 9/10 (13 February 2013)

Once again, the Tarantinster has excelled himself, his latest cinematic event, centered around slavery. Slave, Foxx, is freed of his chains, by Waltz, again turning in a great performance as a mysterious doctor. In return, he wants something- a guide. Waltz's one hell of a gunslinger, his title occupation, a front for his real activities as a bounty hunter, that's indeed profitable. This has much more violence than you would expect, as judged by Tarantino's previous showings. That's after his first Kill Bill. We charter new territory here, the slave aspect, working better than other anti slavery movies of past. Think Drum and Mandingo. Here Foxx and Waltz partner up, Foxx in a quest to find his beautiful black wife, (Kerry Washington) who's been sold to a slave plantation. Ruthless, slave owner, De caprio, playing bad, really good, takes them there, where Foxx, must steal her away from the notorious Candiland. Catchy. Samuel L Jackson, one of those truly underrated actors, is great and funny, as the bigoted butler of this house, who always sucks up to De Caprio, if reiterating his points. The Tarintino humor is back, as is lashings of violence in plenty supply, the cracking sound of those whips, making us appreciate something we'll gladly never have to endure. We too have some close up shots, when involving ailments, that almost made me want to take up beer drinking. The shootout scenes, some that catch us by surprise, are brilliantly staged, where some of you viewers may need to have some stomachs on this violent journey. The performances of nearly every actor in this film are so good, some who you first won't recognize, Don Johnson in particular, who runs one slave plantation early in the film. Some you don't recognize at all, until reading the end credits, where you'll end up saying "Hang on, who were they?" We're talking some veteran actors too, who haven't been on the cinema screen for yonks. Tarantino as a mining company worker dons an Aussie accent that does keep slipping, but when it doesn't, it was quite impressive, it'll catch you by surprise, some of his dialogue gets lost under his trying efforts. Sorrily, Aussie Jarratt, is the worst actor in this, openly using an Aussie accent, with his character that's made him look like a d...head in other films. As highly anticipating a piece of acting, that would blow me away, accent, too, I was clearly despondent, thinking "What, are you kidding me"? And of course, these accents felt truly out of place in this otherwise great film, which is a movie treat if you haven't been to the cinema for quite a while.