Django Unchained (2012)

Django Unchained

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Director : Quentin Tarantino

Writer : Quentin Tarantino

Actors : Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson others...

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Overall : 7.5/10

Direction : 8.5/10

Acting : 9.0/10

Cinematography : 9.0/10

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Django Unchained is the best Tarantino movie till date. Period.

Pulp Fiction had a better cast. Reservoir Dogs had a better plot. Inglorious Basterds and Kill Bill boasted better cultural fusion.

But Django Unchained is a movie that scores on all fronts. Direction is brilliant, although it gets a tad bit slow towards the end (which, people who have watched the other Tarantino movies, would know is a given). The way the camera zooms in and out of focus is quintessentially Tarantino and it's an authentic Spaghetti Western experience.

The movie traces the journey of a black slave Django (played by Jamie Foxx), who is gifted his freedom by Christoph Waltz's character Dr. King Schultz - a German who claims to be a dentist but actually is a bounty hunter. Schultz wants Django to aid him in identifying the Brittle Brothers, who had a bounty on their heads.

Once the task is done, Schultz realises that Django is a natural shooter and therefore, takes him under his tutelage. The duo spend an entire winter collecting bounties. In the process, they discover that Broomhilda (Django's wife, played by Kerry Washington) has been working in Candyland, Mississippi. The plantation owner is some Calvin Candie (DiCaprio). They formulate a plan to buy a Mandingo fighter from Candie and hence conceal their true purpose - i.e., buying Broomhilda in the process.

But, Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), Candie's yes man and a loyal head slave, senses something off and ends up discovering the visitors' aim. There is a lot of fighting (blah, blah, blah), people die, and the end is somewhat close to a happily ever after.

Waltz is resplendent as Dr. King. His sophisticated dialogues and refined mannerisms contrast ever so tastefully with his job description - the man should win an Oscar for this one. DiCaprio is, as usual, awesome. Jamie Foxx executes his role with a cool shrug.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt (of Inception fame) has said of the film -

"#DJANGO features perhaps the greatest shoot-out scene in the history of american cinema."

I would say he is not completely wrong.

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Official Trailer