Django Unchained

So last night I went to see Django Unchained in the cinema. The film was just as long as Les Mis the other week, a Quentin Tarantino film starring Jamie Foxx as Django, Christoph Waltz as Dr Schultz and Leonardo DiCaprio as Candie.

Review below.

***SPOILERS****



So the film is about an ex slave, Django, who has been brought by Schultz to help him on a bounty (Schultz being a bounty hunter.) After the bounty has finished Django decides to stay with Schultz until the snows melt so that Schultz can help him find his wife, another slave called Bromhilda. Yes.... Bromhilda.

They track Bromhilda to Candie land, the biggest plantation in the south, ran by Calvin Candie and his sister. Schultz and Django attempt to trick Candie into releasing Bromhilda by pretending to be interested in his fighting slaves, but after Candies loyal house servent Stephen (Samuel L Jackson) figures out what is happening. They free Bromhilda, but Schultz kills Candie after refusing to shake Candies hand (Schultz doesn't believe in slavery or the way he treated his slaves) and Candie's henchmen kills Schultz. The typical western shoot out follows, where Stephen and the henchmen capture Django and send him back to slavery. But using his skills that Schultz taught him he talks his way out of slavery and goes back not only killing everyone but blowing up the Candies estate as he goes.

Not only was there a lot of action, very bloody scenes and a wonderful story, but it was also highly amusing. The 3 hour sit was not noticed as the action went from serious to seriously funny and kept the pacing. If there was any problems with the story or how it was executed it would be that I didn't see why it was needed to have an end after Schultz and Candie died. I have to say even though the extra 20 minutes after made sense and ended brilliantly, it felt going into the next 20 minutes that it wasn't needed. In the end it was good, but there is something to be said if he had let it finish earlier.

The characters were all really good, to be fair other then a small bit of background on Django there wasn't much character building at all but it worked. They didn't have to be deep or meaningful, it was just fun. Waltz was brilliant as Schultz, he was quick witted and dry. His emotional feelings towards the slaves and Django was quite touching. DiCaprio was totally wonderful, the best character in the whole movie. I am no fan of DiCaprio but I thought he was quite brilliant in this and I loved his character, from just being damn nasty, to damn crazy to damn lovely within seconds of each other. I do think he didn't get enough time on screen.

But I think the award for greatest part in the film would go to Jackson. He was so funny and at the same so dark it was unbelievable. Till the last moment it kept you wondering why he was the way he was. His exchanges with most of the characters was fun and kept a nice upbeat feel to it. But he was just such a bastard in the end he really did deserve to die.

The whole film looked beautiful, and I loved the little nods to the original Django films and such was incorporated really well into the film.

The dialogue was witty and fast. It was brilliantly acted and directed.

To be honest from the trailer I didn't really want to go see it, but I am so happy I did as it is a movie that really needs to be seen on the big screen.

Really should be seen by anyone who loves films....



*******Just to add after Les Mis last week my ratings are going up to 10... I will try and go back to other films/TV shows and change the ratings to something out of 10, but I decided 5 wasn't really a good enough scale! So just so you have a bases for his film Les Mis is 8.9*************


9.1/10