Directed By: Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson
Rating: R for strong graphic violence throughout, a vicious fight, language and some nudity
Run Time: 2 hours, 45 minutes
Synopsis: A bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Waltz) tracks down a frees a slave named Django (Foxx) to help him hunt down the Brittle Brothers. Once that's done, Schultz agrees to make Django his full-time partner and to help him free his wife from the clutches of the evil plantation owner, Calvin Candie (DiCaprio).
REVIEW
Andrew:
Hello readers! Last night Sarah and I braved a snow storm to hit up the local
AMC and catch Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, Django Unchained,
starring Jamie Foxx (Horrible Bosses), Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds), Leonardo DiCaprio (Inception) and Samuel L. Jackson (The Avengers).
The film is about a slave
named Django who is bought by a bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz, who needs
Django to help track down a few bounties. After finding that Django is quite
good at bounty hunting, Schultz agrees to free Django, make him his full
partner and help track down Django’s wife, Broomhilda, who has been sold to an
evil plantation owner named Calvin Candie, played by DiCaprio.
It’s been making a bit of
waves because of it’s liberal use of the N-word, because of Tarantino’s
revisionist take on American slavery, and because of Tarantino’s
classic stylized violence. That said, we’ve been looking forward to this film
for quite some time and now that we’ve seen it, what did you think, Sarah?
Sarah:
Well just from what I’ve seen of Tarantino’s filmography, which is pretty much
just the two Kill Bill films and the first half of Reservoir Dogs, it seems
like this one is pretty on par with the way he likes to do filmmaking. He seems
to like his cameos in his own movies, doesn’t he?
But I really liked this movie!
I LOVED Christoph Waltz. I’ve only ever seen him in Water for Elephants, which
didn’t impress me, but I really liked him here.
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| Christoph Waltz (left), who won an Oscar for his role as Hans Landa in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, scores another fantastic role as the bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz. Might another Oscar be in his future? |
