Got bored, not worth the free ticket my friend gave

Rating: 3/10 (24 January 2013)

I don't usually write critics here but when I do, it is a about a very bad movie.
To be honest, I have to give this flick the three stars. I can see that time, effort and dollars were spend on this one. However, the movie fails where it tries to be witty, funny, surprising, clever or anything above-good whatsoever.
The film has a few main problems. First, the problem is not the lenght itself but the way time is spend. There are some scenes which are way too long and some which are brief yet effective. If this is supposed to be an action movie, the emphasis should be on the action. I understand the attempts to create suspension and atmosphere when I see them, yet sadly I comprehend when such attempts have failed. If you have seen other Tarantinos, you know how scenes with evil people givin'lengty speeches will turn out. Perhaps a die-hard fan of T. experiences predictable events worthy of attention, but I just got bored. There is no pleasure in story which is both obvious and badly told.
Second, the movie has nothing new or innovative to give. As a huge fan of B-movies I expected something fresh out of this - just the way those real cheaply made flicks deliver. But Django stands empty. Violence, profanities and atrocities are poor content for a movie as such. Django invents nothing new to the genre. I admit I even laughed out loud a few times, something I rarely do in cinema, but mostly felt as if I was just wasting my time. N-words, swearing and racism are funny only that far.
If you want to see a film with little action and a simple story, sure, go watch this one. If you love spotting calculatedly positioned spoofs, sure watch this. But don't except nothing you have not seen before, or anything done with a big heart. This is a product comparable to Disney or Pixar animations: you know beforehand what you will see and afterwards you will know your expectations were right.