Thursday 24 January 2013

Django Unchained (2012) 8/10

Starring : Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L Jackson
Director : Quentin Tarantino
Running Time : 166 mins

A freed slave named Django (Foxx) joins forces with the man who freed him. A bounty hunter and former dentist Dr King Schultz (Waltz), who bought his freedom with the aim of making Django his deputy bounty hunter, but instead the two journey in search of Django’s wife, Broomhilda von Schaft (Washington), who has been purchased by plantation owner Calvin Candie (DiCaprio).

This actually wasn’t bad for a Tarantino movie. I’ve never been a big fan of his constant jumping from seemingly irrelevant scene to scene, introducing characters that are only ever so loosely related to each other (especially in films like Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown), but this has a great natural flow and, in spite of what people have said, isn’t as unnecessarily violent as you might think. Fox and Waltz make a perfect odd couple team, with DiCaprio proving his maturity once again with a very capable villainous role.

You’ll like this if you liked : Kill Bill : Volume One



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