Inglourious Basterds is a return to form for Tarantino, in which I mean he has constructed beautiful and elaborate dialogue for his actors to deliver that allow the audience to know they're watching a motion picture and not just a movie. The brilliance of Tarantino is that he always transports the audience to a time and place that they've heard of before, but have never truly imagined with such vividness (Jack Rabbit Slims in Pulp Fiction; a not so safe-house in Reservoir Dogs, etc.)
Every performance is bold and daring, but none more so than Christoph Waltz's portrayal of Colonel Hans Landa more commonly known as "The Jew Hunter." Come winter, this man will most likely be nominated for a Golden Globe (& hopefully an Oscar.) While all the other characters create and contribute to a tableau of absurd, incredibly well executed entertainment, that only Quentin could pull off. For example, Eli Roth plays the foreboding and baseball bat toting "Bear Jew," that takes such delight in bashing Nazi's you find yourself in awe of his ability (& find wondering if he'd be as good with an actual ball.) While the undenibaly gorgeous Diane Kruger finally gets to do some reall acting by playing fictional German movie star Bridget von Hammersmark, who happens to be a double agent. But it's Mélanie Laurent who shines as the real femme fatale & the quintessentially cool french girl (cigarette, trench coat et all) with a BIG secret to hide from the Nazis & is all to familiar with Colonel Landa's notoriety...oh yeah and some guy named Brad Pitt is in it too & quite good as well.
Basterds is brash, bold, brutally funny and I highly recommend it.
My rating: 9.6/10
Side note: I loved that when Tarantino was on Letterman he said that Sergio Leone was one of his favorite directors, and anyone who's seen Kill Bill is well aware those flicks were one giant homage to the "spaghetti western." Though I really loved that he said he was inspired by Leone and just replaced all the cowboy iconography with Nazi iconography. As a WWII (European Campaign) junkie hearing that made me drool, so I can say that I was undeniably biased in writing this review and knew before the movie even started I'd be giving it a 9 or higher. I have to confess though that Michael Fassbender really pushed the rating over the edge, and I only wish that there had been more of that gorgeous man in the movie. Oh yeah and Til Schweiger is too badass for words he just needs to be witnessed.
My rating: 9.6/10
Side note: I loved that when Tarantino was on Letterman he said that Sergio Leone was one of his favorite directors, and anyone who's seen Kill Bill is well aware those flicks were one giant homage to the "spaghetti western." Though I really loved that he said he was inspired by Leone and just replaced all the cowboy iconography with Nazi iconography. As a WWII (European Campaign) junkie hearing that made me drool, so I can say that I was undeniably biased in writing this review and knew before the movie even started I'd be giving it a 9 or higher. I have to confess though that Michael Fassbender really pushed the rating over the edge, and I only wish that there had been more of that gorgeous man in the movie. Oh yeah and Til Schweiger is too badass for words he just needs to be witnessed.
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