Tarantino re-dresses his ultra-violent franchise in pre-civil war south

Rating: 5/10 (5 April 2013)

Wonderful acting, pristine production quality, original plot.
That being said... it's just another Tarantino movie, meaning the usual checklist of violence is complete - rape, torture, death of a parent in front of a child, knee-cap shots, gut shots, genital mutilation/dick shots, eyes gouged out (there's even a scene when Django is practicing shooting on a snow man - Tarantino even manages to gouge out the snow man's eyes and get a dick shot in on the snowman too). There are no good guys, just bad guys - the villains being pure evil with no redeeming human qualities; the protagonists are just as bad as the bad guys but parade under the justification that the villains are worse than they are so the violence is justified.
The villains are one-dimensional at best (white slave owners that torture their slaves), and at worst simply names and faces to set up and knock down.