'DJANGO UNCHAINED' is too good! Tarantino at his best!

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2013)

'DJANGO UNCHAINED': Five Stars (Out of Five)
Quentin Tarantino's homage to spaghetti westerns about pre-Civil War America in the South. Basically it's a slave revenge tale done in B western movie style but it also tackles some serious issues from America's horrifying past. The film stars Jamie Foxx in the title role of a freed slave turned bounty hunter who teams with the bounty hunter who freed him (played by Christoph Waltz) in order to rescue his wife. It co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Samuel L. Jackson. The movie is ultraviolent and as disturbing as hell but it's also highly entertaining and a great example of cinema at it's finest.
The movie opens with a bounty hunter posing as a dentist (his former profession), named Dr. King Schultz (Waltz), tracking down a slave by the name of Django (Foxx) as he's being transported across the country by his two slave owners (James Remar and James Russo). Schultz purchases Django (by force) and makes him a proposition. He wants Django to help him track down his current bounty, the Brittle Brothers (who Django knows), and in return he'll give him his freedom (as he despises slavery). After Django helps him kill the Brittle Brothers Dr. Schultz makes him another offer; that if he stays on as his bounty hunting partner he'll help him track down his wife, Broomhilda (Washington), and free her. Django is a natural shot and reluctantly becomes an expert killer as the two find his wife; staying under the ownership of a ruthless plantation owner named Calvin Candie (DiCaprio).
The film is Tarantino at his very best and delivers plenty of stylized visceral action as well as smart and intriguing dialogue. The characters are as rich and thought out as you could possibly expect from any film (yet alone a B western) and what happens to them is as emotionally involving as one could possibly anticipate from just about any film as well. The acting is all outstanding, especially three scene stealers in particular (Waltz, DiCaprio and Jackson), and the pacing (of the 165 minute movie) is exhilarating as well (It never feels slow or too long). The film is very violent and disturbing and leaves a bitter taste long after it's over but that's to be expected from such shockingly nightmarish but true subject matter. Tarantino has said he wants to do films that deal with our horrible past (that most people are too ashamed to deal with) but depict them as stylized genre films rather than "big issue movies". At this he definitely succeeds.
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