[Movie Review] Django Unchained

Hi Huneybees,

Quentin Tarantino picked up the "Best Original Screenplay" for his film "Django Unchained" at this year's Academy Awards. And when I was invited to catch the movie, I was a happy queen bee on the receiving end of the honey pot!

Not only is this a reputable movie, it is A QUENTIN TARANTINO MOVIE! The man behind "Kill Bill", "Pulp Fiction", is back with a movie on the brutal revenge western, set among the slave platations of pre-civil war America with the leads - Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz.

The movie is partly based on the 1960s cult Django westerns starring Franco Nero (who cameo-ed in this movie) and partly on the notorious 1975 exploitation picture Mandingo.

Two years before the start of the Civil War, the unlikely partnership of German bounty hunter Dr King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) and Django (Jamie Foxx) – the slave he recently freed – set about making money tracking and killing outlaws. But Django also has plans to rescue his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) from ­charismatic but cruel Mississippi plantation owner Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio) with the help of Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson), the malevolent house slave who is the real brains behind the plantation.

 

Like any Tarantino movie, violence is rampant throughout the movie, but this time I must say, it's a physical and verbal affair. Racism is much seen in the movie and the N-word is drawled and snarled perhaps hundreds of times. It is seen here again how his lead character turns from an underdog to a hero forced under circumstances and very much relate back to his previous movies.

Alot of the audiences were ranting about the violence and gruesome acts but I was in fact watching for the story (there was some moments my eyes welled up for Django) and to be honest, focusing on understanding what the actors were saying behind that heavy Southern accent.

How adorable Jamie Foxx look here! Everyone laughed when he appeared in this...

Foxx, DiCaprio, Waltz and Washington being the amazing actors they are in the movie are utterly upstaged by Samuel L Jackson.

As Stephen - Candie's household attendant, Jackson plays an Uncle Tom figure utterly loyal to the white master, with a deathly stare, a disturbing Parkinson's tremor and a habit of dropping the N-bomb even though he is part of them. He stands as Django's final stage to victory and his character was simply so loathsome that I seriously wanted to kick him in the balls!

I give the movie 3.5 out of 5 popcorns.

Django Unchained is recently nominated for 2013 MTV Movie Awards for "Movie of the Year", "Best Male Performance", "Best On-Screen Duo", "Best Fight", "Best Kiss", "Best WTF Moment" and "Best Villain".

Be sure to catch it in the cinemas!