Nuffnang Premiere: Django Unchained Movie Review

Django Unchained, a Quentin Tarantino’s film

There was a time in the wild wild west where guns & bullets could solve pretty much all of the problems.. That was in 1859, 2 years before the American civil war, where story of Django the slave & bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz took place.. Schultz’s hunt for the murderous Brittle brothers soon turns into a rescue mission of Broomhilda, Django’s beloved wife which lost in a slave trade long ago. Eventually they found out that Broomhilda is now a house slave of Calvin Candie, proprietor of "Candyland," an infamous plantation..Thus quest to the rescue!..

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained stars by solid Cast actor Christoph Waltz (Dr. King Schultz), Jamie Foxx (Django- The "D" is silent) and Leonardo DiCaprio (Calvin Candie) is certainly an entertaining one, it is complete (2 hr 30 min+ showing time), brutal, extravagant and ferociously violent (18SX under Film Censorship Board of Malaysia).

Here’s what top critics in the film industries had to say about the film:

The Hollywood Reporter’s Todd McCarthy, who included it in his top 10 films of 2012, wrote: “Tarantino’s affinity for black culture and interest in the ways blacks and whites relate always have been evident, but they’ve never before been front and center to the extent that they are in Django Unchained. Some might object to the writer-director’s tone, historical liberties, comic japes or other issues, but there can be no question who gets the shaft here: This is a story of justifiable vengeance, pure and simple, and no paleface is spared, even the good German who facilitates a slave’s transformation into a take-no-prisoners hunter of whites who trade in black flesh.”

New York Times’ A.O. Scott: “It is digressive, jokey, giddily brutal and ferociously profane. But it is also a troubling and important movie about slavery and racism.”

Washington Post’s Ann Hornaday: “The art of creative anachronism Tarantino practices in this extravaganza of Southern gothic camp is far more successful than 2009’s Inglourious Basterds in meaningfully engaging the history it’s repurposing. Where Basterds was little more than a larky speculative burlesque, Django Unchained possesses an unmistakable subversive power, its playfully insurrectionist spirit perhaps the modern-day pop-culture equivalent of far more high stakes rebellions of yore.”

acknowledgement to Nuffnang for the invitation :)

So obviously Django Unchained is a great movie as it is thrilling, funny, brutal and superbly-acted. Though it comes with admittedly overlong running time, but still it’s worth it.

Rating: 7.9/10 ^^