Excellent!!

Rating: 9/10 (2 January 2013)

The raunchiness is the ELEMENT that did it for me in this film. Yet, it made the story of slavery a new one! Tarantino managed to stay historically accurate in this film while adding the twist to cookie cutter slave film. A slave that rises up and takes vengeance! And by God i was sure just as happy to see him take on those ill-mannered, evil slave owners. Never before have i ever respected Jamie Foxx as an actor, singer, or whatever, but now i have a totally new and fresh outlook on him. Not once did i see the TV personality/comedy "Jamie Foxx". He took the part of Django and turned him into an eager to learn, big hearted, clever and quick thinking slave that had me rooting for him from the beginning to the end. DiCaprio, whom i've never seen him before play the antagonist, just blew my mind. By the time they were having dinner at Candieland, i was so frightened and yet drawn to the character of Mr. Candie that I was having a hard time not imagining what would it really have been like to be "owned" by someone like that if i had been born a century ago? Not to mention the star power of Sam Jackson, and Kerry Washington. Their presence while it was only and mostly towards the end, had an overbearing impact on this film. Overall, Tarantino did a DYNAMITE job getting this cast together with the most unlikely of people (IMO) and i thoroughly enjoyed it. GO! GO! GO AND SEE IT!