Back in Track

Rating: 8/10 (27 January 2013)

At last post Jackie Brown the king of plagiarism has made a largely coherent and hugely enjoyable movie. Tarantino has gone on record about the message he hopes to relay with Django Unchanined . The reality is that he straddles the line between education and a nation self flagellating. Yet much fun can be had from mocking the white hoods and the weird science of the dimples. He has chosen this time to revitalise the genre of second division spaghetti westerns but this is less about that and more about slavery.
In terms of the movie itself there is so much to applaud here . For a start the cinematography is some of the best i have seen in recent times. Flawless. Great dialogue too (which has always been a Tarantino trademark). Jamie Foxx is good but he generally just has to look and act mean. The performances by Waltz and Di Caprio are outstanding. Full marks to the director for at last giving us something to admire from Di Caprio - by making him emote.
The only two negatives for me which contrasted with the attention to detail applied elsewhere were the dreadful bursts of contemporary music every 20 - 30 minutes. Thats what the mute button on the remote is for and also the hammy performance by Samuel L , clearly a man ahead of his time complete with 20th century expletives.