Tarantino is not for every taste, but for lots of blood and interesting story-telling, he can be fun.

Rating: Null/10 (26 May 2013)

This movie is a tribute to the old Western genre, where the gunfighter is on a mission, and it often involves recovering his woman. As the movie begins with sweeping scenes and men on horseback, there is a very forceful song being sung, reminiscent of the ones Frankie Laine did back in the 1950s, for movies such as the original (1957) "3:10 to Yuma" and "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral" (1957).
Christoph Waltz is dentist Dr. King Schultz, but as we soon learn he hasn't actually practiced dentistry in years, his profession is bounty hunter. After we see him in action, in a slick barroom scene which ends in his shooting a wanted man, he heads for a bigger bounty in Mississippi. The problem is he doesn't know what the men look like, and he figures, correctly, that they have taken assumed names.
So he needs help, and he looks for a certain member of a chain gang of slaves. He finds him in Jamie Foxx as Django , "The 'D' is silent." Django knows them, but also seeks to be reunited with his wife, who was sold as a slave to a different owner.
They eventually find that plantation and slave owner, Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, and his place is called "Candieland." The wife of Django is Kerry Washington as Broomhilda von Shaft. (She had been raised by a German, and 'Broomhilda' is a corruption of the fictional German character 'Brunhilda'.)
Candie is pretty easily fooled into thinking the two men wanted to buy a mandingo fighter (no real evidence that this sport ever existed) but his old slave Samuel L. Jackson as Stephen suspects something is up and correctly figures out Django and Broomhilda know each other, and that the real mission is to take her away. All this results in about the biggest, bloodiest gunfight one will ever see.
I will grant that Tarantino's films have their moments, but his insistence on violence and gore surpasses what most viewers welcome in a movie. Even though I knew it was all fake, and over the top, I still cringed. And maybe that is what he wanted the audience to do.