Django Unchained

I'm going to try and keep this review short and will refrain from dropping the N-bomb, in other words I'm going to make it exactly the opposite of Django Unchained. On one hand Tarantino bought us Pulp Fiction...on the other, Death Proof. Django sits a lot closer to the former but it does have its faults. As mentioned the film is too long, there was definitely some fat that could be trimmed and although there would be the chance on missing out on some classic QT dialogue it would give us something to look forward to on the DVD. 

There is also the Spike Lee issue. Should Tarantino be able to write his characters using the n word? At face value I don't see the issue, he is trying to ground his film in some sort of reality, I mean we are all pretty sure that white slave owners would have used the term but it feels like he has gone over the top, almost as a middle finger up to the people who have criticized his past films for the use of the word. This is his chance to write it and it be applicable to the time and setting and so Tarantino just tries to get the word in his script  as many times as possible. 
Spike Lee will be fuming.

As usual Tarantino gets some great actors to put in some great performances, he challenges their typecast.  Leonardo DiCaprio, a man who over the last decade has stealthily moved from pretty boy actor to being one of the most consistent and best actors working delivers a performance full of wit, venom and charm...and terrible teeth.

I don't know anybody who doesn't like Will Smith...or at least doesn't know the rap to the fresh prince of Bel Air but it's lucky that he felt the material was a bit too edgy for him, we've seen him play it straight in films like Ali but this role needed someone with an icy cool about them not a boyish rouge. Jamie Foxx understands that he is in a Tarantino film and delivers every line like he knows it's a sound bite waiting to be used in the trailer or to be traded when discussing your favourite line.

Christophe Waltz, as expected is fantastic, here he plays the good guy so to make up for the fact he won't be unnerving the audience he gets some great facial hair instead. It's a winner ,we have Tarantino to thank for bringing this great actor to the wider audiences attention, his work in the recent Roman Polanski film 'Carnage' shows just how versatile he is.

Tarantino seems to be over his 'Kill Bill' induced slump and making steps in the right direction to bring us cinema as exciting and fresh as his first two films.

All we need now from the director is to spend less time being precious over his material and make film that does not have its audience screaming for an intermission.