Movie Review: Django Unchained (2012)

You know, you would think that a director that had his golden age of movies in the nineties wouldn't be as successful today. However, Quentin Tarantino doesn't age with time. In fact, his movies get better the longer you go without seeing them repeatedly. Django Unchained is a 2012 Tarantino Movie. Starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo Dicaprio, Samuel L Jackson, and Kerry Washington. The movie is about Jamie Foxx (Django) who gets freed by a german bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz). Once Django the slave is freed, he sets out to find his wife (Washington) who has been owned by a plantation owner (Dicaprio). Now this movie is really excellent because the story combined with the characters and setting make this movie close to perfection. The violence in this movie is extreme. Nothing you wouldn't expect to see from any of the Quentin Tarantino movies. Things happen like blood spurting out in all different directions when someone gets shot. Things like that only happen in the Tarantino universe. Anywhere else, and they don't work as well. The acting in this film is great. I think what makes the movie partly so interesting is the fact that no character is just good. Even when we look at the good guys, there is still an existing dark side to them. DU has some similar traits to Kill Bill. Especially where we see the good guy almost turning into a bad guy due to what he has to do. That is what this movie does. I have to say even though this movie is really long, the length doesn't bother me. It's an excellent movie and it doesn't waste it's time telling an overlong story. I definitely would keep young kids away from this movie. Just about everything bad in a Tarantino movie happens in this film. Then there's the use of the N word.. Overall, Django Unchained is fun, entertaining, good acting, awesome story, awesome characters, and a new personal favorite of mine  Three stars.