Tarantino stuck in a gory loop of genre parodies

Rating: 1/10 (14 January 2013)

When was the last time Quentin Tarantino had something really original to say? Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers? This is just a celebration of gore, guns, violence and movie cliché, full of artifice but little art, with nothing meaningful to say about slavery, unless you need a sledgehammer to get the message. Django Unchained is a Blazing Saddles/Mandingo/Spaghetti Western splatter movie, a narcissistic vehicle for a very talented but juvenile filmmaker. There are some great scenes, but just as many silly ones, and can't you see naughty Quentin running around saying: "oh, I know, let's do it like (insert iconic movie here) but the body flies into the air and blood splatters everyone for a mile, hee hee". The plot gets more and more ridiculous, and cliché reworked, no matter how dazzlingly, is still just cliché. Tarantino's violent revenge parodies are becoming tedious.
This movie has enough skill and tension to warrant 5 stars, but to counterbalance all those uncritical mimbos, who would give their breakfast 10/10, I'm giving it one star.