Not that great. Sam Jackson saved this movie

Rating: 6/10 (8 April 2013)

I almost gave this movie a 7 but I had to give it a 6 because it is kind of a sleeper of a movie. The first half of this movie is sleepy. It has great shots and environment but Jaime Foxx is an awful actor. He is a stone faced actor with no emotion. Tarantino is a smart director and shoots around the stone faced Foxx but you can't shoot around the lead of a movie all the time and because of that the movie is a poorer film.
I remember watching the first half of this film thinking that Hollywood needs to make a real movie about slavery because it is an untapped well of emotion and human interest that will produce AMAZING movies if done right. Why couldn't Tarantino just make a movie about slavery? This was just a revenge story set during slavery times.
Anyway this movie dragged on until Sam Jackson came into the picture and literally saved it. Almost single handedly saved it from being a sleeper of a picture. His energy woke up Leonardo DiCaprio who didn't start really act until Sam came into the picture. Sam and Leonardo played off each other so well. Loved it. However Sam Jackson's energy wasn't enough to wake up stone faced Foxx. That man just can not act. Why is he an actor? Someone please tell me!
Christoph Waltz was in this movie and he did an okay job. I think he won an award for his role in this movie but he wasn't anything special. It wasn't like he was bad or anything I just believe that his acting wasn't anything to write home to Mom about.