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The time: two years before the Civil War. The place: the deep south. The person: Django (Jamie Foxx) slave being slow walked across to auction in Texas. Or at least he was until his band his stopped by dentist turned bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christolph Waltz) who needs a man who has seen the vile Brittle Brothers in person and can point them out and help take them down. A man like Django. Download Django Unchained It can be argued that Quentin Tarantino has already taken on the Spaghetti Western (by his own admission his favorite genre) in "Inglourious Basterds" albeit by a circuitous route as just one part of his strange concoction of war film and revenge. In "Django Unchained," he approaches the Spaghetti Western in a more head on manner and a Quentin Tarantino Spaghetti Western is about exactly what you'd expect one to be. As with most of his films since "Kill Bill" revenge is on the menu, it's served up in a high pressure spray of blood and laughter. Yes laughter, as Tarantino willfully, gleefully casts off the remorse and ponderous gravity of his heavier meditations on revenge and what it does to the soul in favor of unrivaled entertainment. Entertainment fueled by violence, just the way we like it. "Kill Bill" is actually the best comparison to be made of all of Tarantino's films from Robert Richardson's gorgeous cinematography to the high-flying, quick-moving violence albeit with gun fu replacing kung fu. The action (far more sparse than you might think) is aided not just by the typically well-defined Tarantino characterization, but also a rich sense of humor which he has not always displayed. One particularly well-drawn beat of a posse lynchers complaining about not being able to see through the eye holes in their Ku Klux Klan like hoods almost verges on "Blazing Saddles" territory and yet does not feel at all out of place. Django, it turns out, is a natural at the bounty hunter game, sharp with the eye and quick with the lead and able to subsume himself into a role as needed to sidle up to his prey, be it a ridiculously dressed valet or a cold hearted black slaver. He and Schultz quickly take to each other as Schultz teaches him the ropes, so much so that when Django tells him the story of his long lost wife the beautiful Broomhilda Von Shaft (it makes sense in context), Schultz feels honor bound to help him rescue her. Django Unchained Download Unfortunately rescuing her means traveling into the belly of Candyland, the Mississippi plantation of one Calvin J. Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the king of the mandingo fight rang, where slaves are bought to fight one another to the death with their bare hands. Much has been made of DiCaprio's performance in the film and he does not disappoint, flying between suave and crazed with equal vigor. The performances across the board are high, with Foxx and Waltz enjoying great on screen chemistry. One of the few downsides is Schultz's built-in showmanship often pushing Django to the sidelines, leaving him to shine only when he has the screen to himself. That said, in a nearly three-hour film there's plenty of opportunity for him to get time to himself, particularly in the last act as he faces off against Candie's various henchman, from gunman Billy Crash (Walton Goggins) to head house slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) who truly epitomizes the film and eras' villainy as a black man who accepts slavery as the way things are meant to be and enjoys his place in that hierarchy. Which is about as preachy as "Django Unchained" gets. Tarantino definitely has a point to make about slavery, and it is there, but it is well hidden behind a stout curtain of fun, which is ultimately what you'll get from "Django." If it doesn't reach the heights of some his other films, it's more than worthy of what happened. Quentin Tarantino is without question one of the greatest filmmaker of the modern age. Over 20 years he has helped reinvent the crime genre, thrown traditional structure out the window, and created characters and shepherded performances that will never be forgotten. But with extreme talent and success comes high expectations as we come to Django Unchained, Tarantino’s eighth film (counting Kill Bill as one full feature). While the spaghetti western homage is packed with everything we’ve come to expect from the writer/director, from buckets of blood to crackling dialogue, ultimately it doesn’t fully deliver the spark we expect from him. Much like Kill Bill and Inglourious Basterds, Tarantino takes us on another mission of revenge, and while the focus is a bit more narrow than the 2009 war epic, the story is just as explosive. Set two years before the start of the Civil War, the movie stars Jamie Foxx as titular Django, a slave freed from bondage by a German bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). At first Django is only on board because he's the only person who knows the faces of three criminals that Schultz is hunting, but the two eventually recognize a bond between them and head off on a mission to rescue Django’s wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), who is owned by the infamous plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio). Unlike Basterds, which takes gleeful joy in rewriting history, it’s actually a realistic approach to the antebellum South that makes Django such a powerful and, in a strange way, cathartic work. Tarantino holds back nothing – as he’s wont to do – in his portrayal of slavery’s cruelty, unabashedly showing unspeakable acts like brandings, whippings, beatings and even dog attacks. But it’s anything but gratuitous. By showing the true-life unspeakable acts that were committed against innocent people during that era, the director earns a powerful emotional response from the audience, making them beg for karmic resolution - and because this is a revenge story they get it in full force. Without the brutality we’d be cheering for Django getting his vengeance anyway, but by including it the movie actually gives you a sense of closure and personal satisfaction. And keeping the audience firmly planted in the world are the extraordinary performances by the lead cast members. Appearing in just about every scene, Foxx brilliantly sells the lone bounty hunter cowboy role when needed, but is at his best when sharing scenes with his co-stars; he and Waltz have sparkling chemistry that allows for the friendship to be believable while also featuring humor and sweetness. And for all the scenery-chewing he does, DiCaprio gives one of the best performances of his career, embracing the outlandish Calvin Candie and having a blast with the material.
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