Why No D.U. Vol. 2?

Rating: 5/10 (17 January 2013)

Granted. I'm not a fan of long winded tales, and even less of the old West, but dang. Django Unchained was too damn long. It truly should've been his next Vol. 1 one year, and Vol. 2 the next; I would've loved, needed, the intermission.
O.K. trying not to start off in the wrong cowboy bootI did like this movie, and especially loved Christoph Waltz and his amazing character, Dr. King (huh.) Schultz. Surprisingly, the star and title character, Django (and Jamie Fox's performance) was so incidental to Schultz, it's a wonder why he was cast.
Oh, that's right; Samuel L. Jackson was too old and needed to play the "old black man/slave role."
In normal Tarantino mode, the movie starts one way and even advertises that premise, and then switches gear even before the movie's half over. There are the typical long-winded dialogue scenes that, mercifully, don't go on as long as his Inglourious Basterds or Death Proof shots did. There is the excessive gore and (way too loud) soundtrack – which happens to be his worst one, to date. And there is the quick zoom-ins that remind people that Tarantino loves those old Grindhouse films.
Get past all that, like I did, and I did enjoy the journey of the enormously smart and quick-witted bounty hunter, Schultz. Oh, I guess, and his "the 'D' is silent" sidekick, Django.
Picture it: the old West. Slaves haven't been freed and what is the deal with Lincoln-era films this year? Sorry. Where was I? Slave Django is acquired by Dr. Schultz in order to find three unwise men and after becoming fond of each other, the movie switches to the retrieval of Django's wife.
Blood, tears, gore, comedy, revenge and bullets are all Tarantino Trademarks and you'll get an abundance here. Watch this for some quick wit, some slave owner's just deserts and overall, the awesome Christoph Waltz.