Tarrantino the one trick pony

Rating: 1/10 (17 February 2016)

This could have been a good movie had it been made by someone who wasn't pretending he is an adult director when he is in fact an egotistical teenager in a mans body. Tarrantino really makes the same film over and over again but with a different theme.
His films are unnecessarily violent, inaccurate and down right offensive to just about everyone.
The story of Django Unchained is so full of holes as to be laughable and the characters are silly caricatures. As others have said this is a mix of Spagetti Western, Pulp fiction and Blazzing Saddles.
Christopher Waltz plays his part as Dr. King Schultz so well that it makes the first part watchable and in a way the story itself leaves you wanting to know what will happen in the end.
After all when you have already sat through two hours you hope against hope that at least the end will make some sense of it all. sadly it doesn't and once Christopher Waltz character is gone it then becomes just another Tarrantino excuse for a movie.
Kerry Washington is a bright light in a dark film and you care for her character, but Jamie Foxx, who was amazing in Ray, is dull and a contradiction of character. There is one part of the film where he became totally unbelievable, there was no reason for him to allow Calvin Candie to set the dogs on the Slave when Schultz had offered to pay for him to be saved. Why would a man who went through so much evil and violent treatment himself just because of his colour, be so uncaring of those still in Slavery?
If you could only take away the graphic violence, use of modern offensive speech, historical inaccuracies, dull acting, awful script and really childish direction and you might have had a good film.
I would also add that the subject of Slavery and Racism are not really subjects to take as lightly as this film does. The kind of suffering inflicted on African's transported to the West and used and treated worse than animals is not in my opinion a subject that Mr Tarrintino should be attempting to make comical.
And the Jamie Foxx character in a modern setting would be seen as a reactionary terrorist. He is not a positive character and I sick of Black and Asian people being portrayed in movies in such a negative way.
Other films have handled the subject of Slavery in much more realistic and empathetic way.