Day 363: Django Unchained

Directed By- Quentin Tarantino

Written By- Quentin Tarantino

Starring- Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, Don Johnson, Jonah Hill

Run Time- 2 hr. 45 min.

Critics Review- "Quentin Tarantino has made a spaghetti western and cross-pollinated it with a blaxploitation picture, but it's fully formed, unapologetic and easily the best popcorn flicks of the year."- Tom Charity "CNN.com"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 88% [CERTIFIED FRESH] Audience- 92%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 5 stars

My Review-

Every time I hear that Quentin Tarantino is coming out with a new film, I get really excited. That was the same when I heard Django Unchained announced, and I was starting to wonder who would play him. I thought it would be Michael K. Williams, because it seemed like he would do a great job in a Tarantino film. However when I heard Jamie Foxx was announced to play him I will admit I was a little skeptical about this, that was until I saw the first trailer. Seems like Tarantino never fails to surprise me in his films and entertain an audience, same goes for this film. This may be my new favorite movie from him and it is also his first "western" film, I liked how he is starting to mix up genre's and time periods for his movie and sort of changing things about or he will address the things that have not been addressed before, such as slavery in this film. There is one scene in the film that involves Jonah Hill and what looks to be the start of The KKK, and it was possibly the funniest scene in the whole entire movie or just one of the highlights of the film and I liked how he added that more comedy into the drama in this one than in his last film Inglorious Basterds. The whole movie is about slavery and about a former slave Django (Foxx) wanting to save his wife Broomhilda (Washington) from slavery, who is owned by the ruthless Calvin Candie, who is played wonderfully by Leonardo DiCaprio in his first role as a villain. DiCaprio plays a wonderful villain and I believe he should take up more roles when he is that bad guy and not the good guy, I think it makes him a better actor or any actor for that matter that can play the villain from time to time. In this movie going from villain to good guy, Christoph Waltz was just plain awesome as Dr. King Schultz who was helping Django rescue Broomhilda. It is at Candie's plantation "Candie Land" where we meet Stephen, Calvin's trusty servant played by the very funny Samuel L. Jackson, and where the most the last half of the movie takes place. This where at Candie Land, even though its short the shootout was so badass and I wish it was a little longer. I agree with my friend Gil who saw the movie the only thing wrong with the movie was the void left in the movie and that was that Sally Menke was not the editor for this one, she sadly passed away in 2010. She had edited all of his movies, so it was different to see a new editor. There was some controversy surrounding the movie, and that was the excessive use of the "N" word, even though it was a slave movie, people want it not be a movie, and if it was not in it, then it would have not shown what slavery was like and that it was more than likely used that much back then, so I do not see why people would get mad. Other than that I really loved this new film Tarantino, now I cannot wait to see what he does next. The most badass western I have seen in a long time, and from reading about to seeing the trailers the movie did not disappoint me, and I hope whoever sees it, that it does not disappoint them.