The Good and the Bad

Rating: 7/10 (3 June 2013)

The story is interesting: A bounty hunter helps a slave rescue his wife.
We all know that Tarantino has an obsession with violence. In films like "Pulp Fiction" and "Inglorious Basterds," the scripts are so interesting that one can overlook the blood-fest. Unfortunately, the script for this Western is so long and goes on and on that the repellent violence can't be ignored.
The film actually gets off to a fairly engaging start, thanks to a brilliant performance from Waltz as dentist/bounty hunter. Foxx is much less interesting as Django, a perpetually angry and arrogant slave. But the performance of DiCaprio was not convincing as an evil slave owner. Soon thereafter the film runs out of steam but still rambles on for about an hour.