Django Unchained
Jamie Foxx is Django the luckiest pre-civil war slave ever after he’s introduced to Dr. King Schultz (a mesmerizing Christoph Waltz). He’s a German Dentist/Bounty Hunter with a dramatically better grasp of English than most of his American hosts despite it being his second language. Schultz is on the hunt for three fraternal marauders with prices on their heads but no identifiable characteristics. However at one time they were cruel overseers at Django’s last plantation so in fine Tarantino bullet spitting style the mercenary doctor acquires Django’s freedom, thus allowing him to provide the visuals on that next meal ticket. Now not surprisingly a slave might show a certain flair in despatching sadistic white men. But after the fact while eluding Big Daddy (Don Johnson), the employer of the the three now dead men, Dr. Schultz sees real talent in Django. He proposes a partnership over the winter to which Django agrees but only when the rescue of his wife Broomhilda (Kerry Washington) at the end of the contract is put on the table. When that crunch time comes however, since Broomhilda is at the plantation ironically known as Candieland and is the property of the brutal Calvin Candie (Leonardo Di Caprio), the two have to venture deep into hostile Mississippi. Free man or not, Django need to keep his wits about him to pull off the extraction scam he a Schultz dream up. It seems like no one in Hollywood wants to be left out of the fun of a Quentin Tarantino adventure so look for cameos by Jonas Hill, Bruce Dern, Robert Carradine, Michael Parks and Tom Wopat to name a few as well as a big stretch role for Samuel L Jackson. Speaking of a stretch, at 165 minutes why do you feel like you still want more? Django Unchained is QT at his Tarentino-y-est!