'Django Unchained' is Outrageously Entertaining

It's funny, offbeat, and brutal. Based in the American South during the times of slavery, Jamie Foxx straps on a six-shooter or two, some cowboy's boots and hat in "Django Unchained."

The film is playing at the GTC Merchants Walk 12 Cinema and the GTC Park 12 Cobb.

Foxx's Django character is taken by a bounty hunter, played by Christoph Waltz. First they set out to get a few outlaws. Then they set their sights on getting Django's wife, Broom Hilda, played by Carrie Washington. But wrangling her tough guy owner, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, isn't so easy.

As to be expected the movie has great dialogue, is funny and fine performances are turned in by all. Samuel L. Jackson, who plays a minor role, is a big standout, in my opinion.

The film never loses site of the horrors of slavery and even though it uses the "n-word" a few times, it is a Quentin Tarantino movie – you have to expect that.

The flick-o-meter gives "Django Unchained" a five out of five. It's two hours and forty mintues and, at times, it does feel a bit long.

Film director Spike Lee has gone on record saying the film is disrespecful to his ancestors by reducing slavery to a Spaghetti Western, even refusing to see it. Now even more people are going to see it because of that...go figure.

Spike, you and Tarantino are both artists. I may not be the best person to make this judgment because I'm white, but "Django Unchained" doesn't feel disrepectful to the memory of slavery, even though it falls short of capturing it. That being said, I love Tarantino movies and I highly recommend it.

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