Bloody Awesome

Rating: 8/10 (19 January 2013)

The most fun I've had in the cinema probably ever. I remember thinking halfway through the film "dont f**k this up Tarantino", I was very excited I was almost in tears. It's a rich film with outstanding attention to detail in the set and costume design and also the over-the-top characters. Really top notch adult entertainment at its best. Unfortunately the curse of self indulgent Tarantino did rear its ugly head during the last half hour which is annoying when it was going so well. You can almost pin point the moment it turns. I heard an interview with the director recently where he says he shoots his scenes in the order they appear in the film. If this is true then it might explain why the last part of Django feels over extended and ill fitting with the rest of the movie. You can tell so much that Tarantino loves to direct, he loves the hands on, maybe he just doesn't want the process to end. He definitely shouldn't have appeared in it. I don't really have a problem with the over the top shoot out but it may have been a little immature and blood thirsty in places. It's never sick because you (or rather I did) start to get desensitised to the excessive violence and that's a problem. It just feels out of place when compared to the rest of the film. Loved the music all the way through. Didn't like scurrying men like kill bill. Loved Candy. L Jackson OMG, legend. Loved swirling smoke over Djangos hat. It's so good I can't stop thinking about it. Me and my girlfriend were like excited school kids leaving the cinema. She agreed with me that the last 20 or 30 mins let it down somewhat. It's a shame but I guess that's tino for ya. He probably gets off on the splatter stuff. It's all real not CGI which is nice. It's weird when I was watching the massive bloody shootout it made me feel very weird like a kind of adrenaline high my forehead pricked with sweat. All that blood its strangely intimate. I felt like I could have blushed like I was seeing a personal side to the director I didn't like but at the same time was massively engulfed in the woozy feeling. Black magic. Black people are sexy though. Anyways. Great film, certainly unique. Can't wait to see what else this man can do. Long live QT !