Django Unchained Review

I'm a huge Tarantino fan and I've been waiting a long time to see this movie. Not only does it surpass my expectations, it is one of the best movies released this year. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained is violent, vulgar, and down right hilarious film. Imagine if Blazing Saddles had a baby with The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Set two years before the civil war, the movie follows a slave by the name of Django (Jamie Foxx). While being transported alongside a group of slaves, Django is rescued by a bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz needs Django's help in finding three slave driving brothers with a bounty on their heads. The problem is Schultz doesn't know what they look like, so that's where Django comes into play. Django points them out and Schultz points his gun, and in return Django will be a free man. While hunting for the brothers the Doctor learns that Django's wife was take from him and sold at auction. Schultz feels sympathy towards him and agrees to help find his wife. They learn that his wife was sold to a scumbag plantation owner named Monsieur Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio). So Django and Schultz head out to save his wife. Django Unchained is Tarantio's first dip into the Spaghetti Western genre, and he nails it on every level. The writing is the best he's done in years, it's also the funniest script he's ever written. One thing I admire about Tarantino is that he does what he wants. Django Unchained is less than politically correct to say the least. Also this movie was cast perfectly. I'm even expecting Waltz to get a best supporting actor nomination. Samuel L. Jackson is in this movie and he plays Candie's kiss ass head slave. He plays the same character as in every other movie he's in (angry black man), and he nails it. Tarantino also makes his usual cameo, I always welcome seeing a master of cinema on the big screen. Another thing that added to the movie was the soundtrack. It comes from several different genres. Country, rap, even got some Johnny Cash thrown in there. I only have two complaints about this movie. The first is that I wish the female actress was as strong as some other women in Tarantino's moves. And the second is I didn't need to see Jamie Foxx naked. But those two things aside I loved every thing about this movie. The acting, music, writing, and everything else are just about perfect. This is Tarantino's best movie since Pulp Fiction. And not only is this one of the best movies of the year, it may just be my favorite. 5/5