The story is quite uninteresting. Django goes from slave to super-duper gunman with the help of a ridiculous ham actor with a German accent, then they come across "Mandingo" fighter bad boy, and rescue Django's lady from the clutches, with some added nonsense about Brans-Dickey mining company.
There is some kind of musical accompaniment which was meant to conjure up the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns, but the music is quite forgettable. There is also some music by James Brown or somebody like that at the end, yet more of Quentin Tarantino's self-indulgent "references".
It's boring because the characters are all cyphers, little plastic toys that Quentin is playing with.
Jamie Fox actually does well with this role, so I give it two stars rather than one. But apart from him, the German person who played a Nazi in another one of QT's turkeys was just awful in this, really embarrassingly bad ham acting, and the woman who plays his wife "Brunhilda Von Shaft" probably should have been replaced with some kind of upgraded person.
Samuel Jackson is in the film too and he does his best, but the part of one-dimensional sadist only there to get killed by the hero is weak, unimaginative scripting.
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