Django Unchained - Review

"Adult supervision is required."

Django Unchained is a bloody, insane, often disturbing film with colorful characters and dialogue... released on Christmas day.  In other words, it's a Tarantino film.  Fans of his will enjoy it, Tarantino haters won't bother seeing it.  I don't think it's the director at his absolute best, but that's not to say that I didn't enjoy the film.  Above all else, Tarantino (like many of his characters) is a brilliant storyteller.  I will always applaud his love for the cinematic medium, which shines through in every frame of his films.  The dinner scene pictured above was the highlight of Django without a doubt.  It recalled the events leading to the "Mexican standoff" in Inglourious Basterds.  With that scene in mind, the question becomes when will a gun go off and who will be the one pulling the trigger?  The theater in which I saw the film was silent during these scenes, filled with a nervous tension.  THAT is Tarantino at his best - sculpting beautifully literate dialogue juxtaposed against graphic, sudden violence.  The standout performances here were Samuel L. Jackson and Leonardo DiCaprio who both portrayed devious, yet hilarious characters right out of the mind of Quentin Tarantino.  Christoph Waltz does a fine job once again and I enjoyed his character quite a lot, but it was a bit reminiscent of his Hans Landa and lost some of its originality as a result.  It probably won't be your favorite from the director's series of bloody masterpieces, but even so it still marks another darkly entertaining entry in the Tarantino canon.

4.5 out of 5

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