Movie #143: Django Unchained

Movie #: 143
Movie Title: Django Unchained
Year Released: 2012

Director: Quentin Tarantino
Notable Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson

Short Description: With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. (IMDB.com)


Rank on the Top 100 Lists (as of 1/7/2013)

AFI.com: N/A
IMDB.com: #46
Ranker.com: N/A
Lifed.com: N/A
Empire.com: N/A
FilmCrave.com: N/A
FlickChart.com: N/A

Note: This is the highest ranking movie that only appears on IMDB.com's list.



Date Watched: 4/8/2016

Grade: 4.5 out of 5 (Outstanding)

Rationale: I never thought I'd say this, but I love a movie directed by Quentin Tarantino. Superb acting, fantastic writing (another credit I didn't think I'd ever bestow upon Tarantino), and the exciting action Tarantino is known for make Django Unchained an exhilarating struggle for revenge. Christoph Waltz was absolutely deserving of the Best Supporting Actor Oscar he won and it's a bit surprising that Leonardo DiCaprio wasn't nominated in that category as well since he was equally as good in the villain role. I didn't care for Samuel L. Jackson's character and the movie missed what I thought was the perfect place to end by continuing on another 20ish minutes, but those were minor footnotes in another wise great movie.