My review
This one ranked highly on a list of Tarantino's favourite westerns. Naturally I couldn't pass on it.
It's also my first (and most likely only?) Italian western movie.
The movie isn't really all that complex. You have Django, a badass motherfucker that drags around a coffin with a GATLING MACHINE GUN inside. Honestly that already had me hooked. Besides that the music is perfect (love the theme song, and the fact that it also is featured in Tarantino's Django Unchained), and every scene really sucked me in.
The movie is a bit more gory than I'm used to in westerns. Key examples are the ear getting cut off, the hands completely beaten to pulp.
Dialogue is nothing special, of course what can you expect from an Italian western in 1966? Cinematography also nothing to write home about.
Cool (fact?) since Django's hands were completely beaten, supposedly this is where he got his name from, as famous jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt had badly damaged hands from a fire. (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt)
Conclusion
If you want to watch a badass motherfucker dressed in style kill dozens of guys in a western, then go watch this movie. In for something more serious? Skip it.
7/10
