Tarantino's Redemption

Rating: 8/10 (17 February 2015)

Quentin Tarantino has delivered an uneven product over the years, if you ask me, but his high points have so far always been worth sticking around for. This film is one of them. Regardless of plot conveniences that are piled on at an almost comical pace, the story and the action are compelling, and the excess of dialog only weighs the film down a little bit. Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz are perfect in their roles, bringing that old movie magic where you really root for the good guys.
The film isn't any less exploitative than "Inglorious Basterds".... where he was treading on "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS" territory, now he's in the terrain of Russ Meyer's "Blacksnake." Why does it bother me less? I'm not sure, but I've always been more partial to Westerns than War movies, and I thought the characters in this film were a lot more compelling.
Morricone's music is better used here than it has been in his other films (it feels like like fanfilm and more like appropriate film music) -- helps that Morricone did an original song for this one (Tarantino obviously reads my posts here, since I mentioned he should just hire the maestro way back in the 90s).
Sequel, please! It would be fun to see how Django deals with the civil war in America.