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Rating: 8.5 stars

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Django Unchained (2012)

Directed by Quentin Tarantino

Action | Drama | Western

Most recently watched by JohnPeel, ashe5k, Angjonesy, eduardovictory, squeegull, CaptainBigTime, BrandonMarcus, Javitron, Rotor1999, elisabethwithns

Overview

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Rated R | Length 165 minutes

Actors

Jamie Foxx | Christoph Waltz | Leonardo DiCaprio | Kerry Washington | Samuel L. Jackson | Walton Goggins | Dennis Christopher | James Remar | David Steen | Dana Gourrier | Nichole Galicia | Laura Cayouette | Ato Essandoh | Sammi Rotibi | Clay Donahue Fontenot | Escalante Lundy | Miriam F. Glover | Don Johnson | Franco Nero | James Russo | Tom Wopat | Don Stroud | Amber Tamblyn | Bruce Dern | M.C. Gainey | Cooper Huckabee | Doc Duhame | Jonah Hill | Lee Horsley | Zoe Bell | Michael Bowen | Robert Carradine | Jake Garber | Ted Neeley | James Parks | Tom Savini | Michael Parks | John Jarratt | Quentin Tarantino | Amari Cheatom | Keith Jefferson | Marcus Henderson | Lil Chuuch | Kinetic | Louise Stratten | Kim Robillard | Shana Stein | Shannon Hazlett | Jack Lucarelli | Victoria Thomas | Grace Collins | Sharon Pierre-Louis | Christopher Berry | Kim Collins | Dane Rhodes | J.D. Evermore | Rex Linn | Michael Bacall | Ronan Hice | Ned Bellamy | Dave Coennen | Danièle Watts | Jon Eyez | Omar J. Dorsey | Evan Parke | Craig Stark | Brian Brown | Ritchie Montgomery | Nicholas Dashnaw | Jarrod Bunch | Edrick Browne | Kerry Sims | Jamal Duff | Todd Allen | Lewis Smith | Keniaryn Mitchell | Jakel Marshall | Carl Singleton | Ashley Toman | John McConnell | Mark Amos | Monica Rene'e Anderson | Marsha Stephanie Blake | Catherine Lambert | Deborah Ayorinde | Takara Clark | Kimberley Drummond | Tenaj L. Jackson | Carl Bailey | Ross P. Cook | Gregory Allen Gabroy | Seth Bailey | David G. Baker | Richie J. Ladner | Glen Warner | Kesha Bullard | Edward J. Clare | Jordon Michael Corbin | Mike DeMille | Gary Grubbs | Justin Hall | Sandra Linz | Kasey James | Skipper Landry | Cindy Mah | Johnny Otto | Belinda Owino | Mark Ulano | Misty Upham | Russ Tamblyn | Fatimah Taliah | Santana Draper

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

I liked this film a lot, probably in the top third of Tarantino films for me. It felt similar to Kill Bill Volume One in terms of its narrative structure and storyline, but is visually more straightforward than most of Tarantino’s work.

While I’ve heard a lot of praise for Samuel L. Jackson’s performance (which is great), Christoph Waltz really steals the show for the first two thirds of the film. It’s as if he were born specifically to deliver Tarantino’s dialogue.

There are some great cameos and minor roles played by great actors and previous QT film vets throughout the film (I won’t spoil any of them) that it’s a veritable who’s who.

I’ll definitely be revisiting this movie again, though it won’t displace Kill Bill Vol. 1 as my favorite Tarantino film. Watching Waltz work also makes me want to revisit Inglourious Basterds as well, specifically for his performance.

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