Page 18 THE VILLADOM TIMES I, II, III & IV • January 23, 2013 Waltz, Foxx star in tale of slavery, revenge adventure. Tarantino is not a subtle director, so his strokes are broad and gritty. It’s not often that an action film has more to offer than shoot ‘em ups, explosions, and other forms of visual mayhem. All of those are present in “Django Unchained,” but this film is a pleasure to listen to and exciting to watch. This is sharp moviemaking with beautifully written dialogue. Former dentist and current bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) buys the freedom of a slave named Django (Jamie Foxx) because he can identify the men Schultz is hunting. As Schultz trains Django to be a deputy bounty hunter, a genuine bond forms between them. Django learns quickly and helps Schultz kill several wanted men. Django longs to find his wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington). Their slave master sold them separately to punish Django for insubordination. His quest leads the two men to Candieland, the plantation of Calvin Candie (Leonardo Di Caprio), where Broomhilda is enslaved. A plan is hatched to buy her back so she and Django can be reunited. Tarantino is a self-indulgent director when it comes to editing. His scenes go long after their point has registered. He appears so infatuated with his own dialogue that he fails to trim the excess for artful pacing, and the movie sags far too often. If the scene enhances characterization, that is fine, but when it appears little more than an exercise in deft (continued on Crossword page) Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx play an unlikely pair of bounty hunters in ‘Django Unchained.’ by Dennis Seuling “Django Unchained” is director Quentin Tarantino’s attempt to compress an assortment of film genres into one neat package. A drama about the pre-Civil War institution of slavery and an indictment of its inherent inhumanity, this movie is also an old-fashioned Western complete with gunfighter, a dark comedy, a splatter flick, and an action/