Quentin Tarantino is arguably one of the best directors in the movie business. Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds and others have cemented him as a fan favorite with a cult following.
His latest film tells the story of a freed slave, Django (Jamie Foxx) who works with a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) to rescue his wife from a plantation owner. The N-word, Mandingo fighting and of course slavery are horrific aspects of American history but they are a part of our history and we need to know our history in order not to repeat it.
Jamie Foxx after starting out "rocking our world" in In Living Color and singing to us in Ray has again impressed us at playing the freed title role of Django. Christoph Waltz is wonderful as Dr. King Schultz, a tough German but seems to me to be a bit typecast in this role. Leonardo Dicaprio is good at playing the plantation owner Calvin Candie but doesn't blow anyone away with said performance. Samuel L Jackson, however does blow us away as Stephen, the right-hand man of Calvin who is just as bullying as his white counterparts at over-powering the slaves. In fact, I believe he should have been nominated for the Academy Awards supporting actor category instead of Christoph Waltz. Don Johnson was comical as Big Daddy and I must give props to Wisconsin's own, Tom Wopat as a Marshall Gill Tatum.
Overall, I enjoyed this movie and would be very pleased if it took home the Best Original Screenplay Oscar (my future category-in my dreams). I give this a two thumbs up without chains so that we all learn to realize that freedom is not free and history should never be repeated.
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