- Film Review
- Reviewed By Alan Jones
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4 out of 5
Director Quentin Tarantino follows up his Oscar-winning war homage Inglourious Basterds with this playfully audacious mix of spaghetti western lore, Teutonic legend, blaxploitation stylings and revisionist American history. It's a wildly thrilling swagger through the good, bad and ugly sides of slavery, with Jamie Foxx as the slave-turned-bounty hunter who's on a mission to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner (played by Leonardo DiCaprio on top villainous form). Ferociously overindulgent in that trademark Tarantino way, but acceptably so because he knows which genre movies to lovingly recycle (Blazing Saddles and Mandingo to name but two), the film is blessed with often enthralling dialogue, surreal plot twists, a film buff's dream of a supporting cast and a soundtrack that acts as another melodious Morricone tribute. Christoph Waltz (who deservedly won an Academy Award for Basterds) gives a brilliant performance of ruthless charm personified as Django's German mentor, but the real surprise here is Samuel L Jackson's skin-crawling portrayal of DiCaprio's manipulative head servant.
Plot Summary
A slave named Django is tracked down by eccentric German bounty hunter Dr King Schultz, who offers him his freedom in exchange for help bringing three criminals to justice. The unlikely allies continue their partnership after the job is done, and fight to rescue Django's wife from a sadistic plantation owner. Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning Western, starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L Jackson.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Django
- Jamie Foxx
- Dr King Schultz
- Christoph Waltz
- Calvin Candie
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Stephen
- Samuel L Jackson
- Broomhilda von Shaft
- Kerry Washington
- Billy Crash
- Walton Goggins
- Leonide Moguy
- Dennis Christopher
- Ace Speck
- James Remar
- Mr Stonesipher
- David Steen
- Sheba
- Nichole Galicia
- Lare Lee Candie-Fitzwilly
- Laura Cayouette
- Big Daddy
- Don Johnson
- Amerigo Vessepi
- Franco Nero
- Dicky Speck
- James Russo
- Marshall Gill Tatum
- Tom Wopat
- Sheriff Bill Sharp
- Don Stroud
- Daughter of a Son of a Gunfighter
- Amber Tamblyn
- Curtis Carrucan
- Bruce Dern
- Big John Brittle
- M C Gainey
- Lil Raj Brittle
- Cooper Huckabee
- Bag Head 2
- Jonah Hill
- Tracker Peg
- Zoë Bell
- Tracker Chaney
- Tom Savini
- The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co Employee
- Michael Parks
- The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co Employee
- John Jarratt
- The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co Employee
- Quentin Tarantino
Crew
- Director
- Quentin Tarantino
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