Django Unchained

   Quentin Tarantino's latest film is nothing short of awesome. The cast are exceptional. Jamie Foxx puts on one of his best ever performances and looks super cool in cowboy gear. Christopher Waltz and Samuel L Jackson are at their comic best, while Leonardo DiCaprio does a great job in his first outing as a villain.
   Django (Jamie Foxx) is a black slave who is bought by the quirky German bounty hunter Dr King Schultz (Christopher Waltz) so that Schultz can find a specific bounty. Once Schultz realises Django is a natural at hunting bounties and that he is in search of his wife who had been sold to another plantation, they partner up and aim to get his wife back.
  Samuel L Jackson is hilarious as the elderly senile butler, who is cleverer than his intial actions appear. DiCaprio makes for a great villain and it saddens me that there has been unnecessary and ridiculous criticism that the word nigger is used too often and especially by DiCaprio. The film is set in the deep south of the United States in 1858. DiCaprio is a brutal plantation owner with countless black slaves, nigger was a term used and if Tarantino tiptoed round it, it would have been unrealistic.
   In my opinion Django Unchained was better than Tarantino's last picture, Inglorious Basterds, which is no mean feat, and his best film since Pulp Fiction.

For fans of Tarantino, superb acting and masterpieces.

Stars *****