He never delivers!

Rating: 6/10 (25 January 2013)

Great expectations for this movie: imagine Tarantino paying tribute to western movies! And he even got Enio Morricone to write a few songs! And then add a little taste of blaxploitation and voilá, movie of the year. I mean ... I believe most of the people felt that way about this, but on this movie we see a Tarantino that lost his storytelling skill, in favor of his "trademarks". What we have here is a great collection of awesome scenes (and they're really awesome ... that hip hop track was a touch of pure genius), but he doesn't tie them together. Django Unchained is around three hours long, what could have been two if he were a little more respectful to his audience. Waltz shows again his astounding acting skills, but his role is nothing but a big plot device ... he is the deus ex machina! He's the only thing that keeps the story going through the entire movie, although his character lacks depth entirely. Jamie Foxx is perfect for his job too, and shows why he was chosen for this role, but his character is just a big unimpassioned sucker, who you never know if it's just stupid or not ... that because Tarantino chose to put an unfunny plot breaking joke (about his dressing) instead of keeping it real, instead of making the audience feel his pain. I guess Tarantino just couldn't handle the weight of making both a western pasta and a blaxploitation tribute, like he just get's little pieces of each and pray for them to work together (which doesn't). DiCaprio also displays his acting skills perfectly: it's easily ignorable on this film that he is DiCaprio, but he is trapped in another non-explored character. It just feels like Tarantino first decided what scenes to shoot and then how the story should go, and the result is a three hour collection of good ideas that never deliver what the viewer expected. He should get back on doing Jackie Brown or Death Proof.