Unmistakable Tarantino

Rating: 8/10 (1 March 2020)

'Django Unchained' has a capacity within itself for powerful storytelling and delivering equally strong messages about it's makers beliefs and motivations.
I appreciate the strengths of vision, knowledge, and belief that underpin such cinema.
This is Tarantino's work and he allows his fellow collaborators to participate in his overwhelming display of film making.
His cast take the opportunity to give punchy and neat, almost clipped, performances with Tarantino himself providing a, for me, unwelcome and unsuccessful dose of 'free' acting towards the very end of proceedings.
Cool dialogues and choreographed physical violence permit such dialled in machismo to predominate in most actors performances.
The run time is extended and probably prevents a higher rating on my part; especially as a second climax scenario is less agreeable than the main narrative and contributes to this bloated overall duration.
Great camera work, action scenes, story, production design, score and enthused acting make this film worthy of a very high rating in my opinion however this problem of "more isn't always better" in regards to runtime and climaxes leaves me settling at 8/10 and a hearty recommendation to other film fans: as long as they have enough time to spare.