Django Unchained:What's it about?Quentin Tarantino's '
southern' adventure set in 1858 in which a German bounty hunter frees the titular slave, and takes him under his wing as they go in search of Django's wife Broomhilda, encounter gunfights and flamboyant slave owners along the way.
Who would I recognise in it?Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, James Remar, Michael Parks, and Don Johnson, Jonah Hill.
Great/Good/Alright/Shite?Surprisingly, for a film that's the best part of 3 hours long,
Django Unchained rarely seems to drag. As good as
Inglourious Basterds was, there were several scenes where I knew what was coming and I was just waiting for it to happen (
e.g. the tense encounter at the bar) -
Django Unchained, on the other hand, felt more unpredictable, and featured a more balanced sense of pace (
helped too, by following the same main characters for the entire movie, not just parts of it like in Inglourious Basterds). The traditional Tarantino dialogue is there - especially for Christoph Waltz, who once again gives a (
rightfully) Award-winning performance - but there's enough nerve-shredding encounters and all-out gunfights (
with gleefully gloopy geysers of gore) to keep things fresh and exciting.
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