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It was a big hit at the box-office and with the Oscars.
Prime Video has just added Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 Western film masterpiece, to its streaming service.
Set two years before the US Civil War, Jamie Foxx stars as a slave named Django who finds himself accompanying an unorthodox German bounty hunter named Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) on a mission to capture the vicious Brittle brothers.
When their mission is successful, Schultz frees Django and together they begin hunting the South’s most-wanted criminals.
“Their travels take them to the infamous plantation of shady Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), where Django’s long-lost wife (Kerry Washington) is still a slave,” the plot synopsis reads.
Very loosely inspired by Django – the 1966 classic spaghetti Western, which is also streaming on Prime Video – Django Unchained’s ensemble cast also includes Don Johnson, Franco Nero, Jonah Hill, Samuel L. Jackson and Walton Goggins.
And boasting Tarantino’s trademark blend of stylish direction, incredible dialogue and shocking moments of violence, it is no surprise the movie was a hit at the box-office and won two Oscars – Best Supporting Actor for Waltz and Best Original Screenplay for Tarantino.
You can read a sample for some reviews for the film here:
Arizona Republic: “The name of the movie is Django Unchained, but for all practical purposes it might as well be called ‘Tarantino Unleashed’.
Flavorwire: “The movie moves, with crispness and intelligence, arriving at the most purely satisfying conclusion we could possibly ask for. Audiences are going to eat that last reel up. I know I did.”
IndieWire: “Tarantino designed this revisionist western to blow people’s gaskets. Packed with physical comedy, bloody action and hell-bent revenge, it looks like a classic widescreen Sergio Leone western.”
The Wall Street Journal: “Wildly extravagant, ferociously violent, ludicrously lurid and outrageously entertaining, yet also, remarkably, very much about the pernicious lunacy of racism and, yes, slavery’s singular horrors.”
Both Django Unchained and Django are streaming on Prime Video in Ireland and the UK right now.
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