Django Unchained is a recklessly entertaining mess—and in Tarantino’s world, that’s usually a compliment.
And yes, the violence is absurd. Blood sprays in cartoonish geysers. Gunfights are choreographed like ballet. The climactic shootout at Candyland sees Django turn a mansion into Swiss cheese, freeing the slaves and painting the walls red. It’s cathartic, juvenile, and exhilarating all at once. Django Unchained
Here’s a review of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012), written in a critical but enthusiastic style. Quentin Tarantino has never been known for subtlety. But with Django Unchained , he loads his signature blend of grindhouse violence, pop-culture pastiche, and rapid-fire dialogue into a musket aimed directly at the heart of American slavery. The result is thrilling, uncomfortable, wildly entertaining, and occasionally tone-deaf. Django Unchained is a recklessly entertaining mess—and in