Tarantino's Western is as good as they get

Rating: 8/10 (13 May 2013)

Christoph Waltz is Dr. King Schultz, an ex-German dentist turned bounty hunter who joins forces with a slave named Django, played by Jamie Foxx, to assist him in identifying his next target. A strong bond is formed between the wise, quick-witted and optimistic bounty hunter and Django, who Schultz has trained to be a one-man army in Quentin Tarantion's latest film, Django Unchained.
You can't help but hope that the film never ends during it's first hour which is played like a Western, with equal amounts of blood, shocks and laughs. Though, half way through, the film changes pace when Leonardo DiCaprio is introduced as Calvin Candie. Candie is the owner of Candyland, the most notorious plantation in all Mississippi, where Django's wife is being held. The fun stops here and things get deadly serious. Samuel L. Jackson joins in only to make things more intense in his strongest role yet. One has to admire having four actors at the peek of their careers all sitting around a table sharing a meal, even if it may be in the most uncomfortable and stomach-churning scenes ever put to film.
Django falls back between Kill Bill & Tarantio's magnum opus, Inglourious Basterds. While Basterds seems to have been flawlessly written with everything perfectly planed out and in place, Django feels as if much of the film was improvised. Christoph Waltz was never been better and completely steals the show. The action lives up to what we've come to expect from Tarantino and though the dialogue is still better written and acted than anything else out there, it doesn't top anything Tarantino has done before.
As a Western, it's as good as they get. Like Kill Bill, when you leave the theatre you are satisfied and have seen enough. However, I find the greatest films are the ones that leave you craving more. Those are the films I can and will watch again and again.