Django Unchained (2013), Quentin Tarantino
4/5
Tarantino's latest piece of genre film brilliance is the spaghetti western Django Unchained. Performances are great with the amazing Jamie Foxx (The Soloist, Jarhead) playing Django. The cinematography is stunningly shot on film, with many great slow motion sequences (although there are some bad slow-mo moments as well) and great visual style that is specific to Tarantino as an auteur. The script is powerful, moving and hilarious. Part great Western, part drama and exploitation with gratuitously beautiful violence, with so much hilarious blood spurts. The music is great overall complimenting the action sequences and imagery beautifully, with only a couple of exceptions that felt out of place. Performances were great notably Leonardo di Caprio (The Departed) as Calvin Candie, Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) as Dr. Schultz and Kerry Washington (Ray) as Broomhilda. Exceptions were the obligatory cameo by Tarantino and his acting is made obviously bad by playing across the amazing Jamie Foxx and also the inclusion of Australian actor John Jarratt (Wolf Creek) who gives a terrible over the top performance with a grating Australian accent. Also, Tarantino "attempts" to do an Australian accent and fails dismally. Overall this is a great film, lots of amazing action, great casting, beautiful visuals, hilarious jokes and dialogue and lots of gratuitous violence and all the tongue-in-cheek stuff is bound together by amazing heart in this film.
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