Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger

In German-occupied France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity ...( read more  read more... )as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

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R, 2 hrs. 32 min.

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino

Release Date: August 21, 2009

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  • November 27, 2009
    Not exactly the typical Tarantino flick... and rather mild on the violence and gore than the trailer showed us.... maybe my expectations were different as this movie is.

    Anyways, with a colorful cast led by Brad Pitt, Taratino gives his his take on WWII. A cross between the ori...( read more)ginal Inglorious Bastards and The Dirty Dozen, it strives to find some position but I cant help thinking that it didnt meet my expectations - a couple short stories revolving around the Nazi propoganda machine, but these stories are not equal to Pulp Fiction.

    The script was excellent, the cast were on the ball.... if you don't mind the dialouge in French and German most of the time. Some may find it long winded and boring, though the build up of some scenes were a let down. Laced with the same dark humor and themes like revenge and brutality, the movie is rather more a play than a movie.


    Anyways, it was good viewing, but a tad long and did leave me feeling confused on what exactly Tarantino was trying to achieve here.... he keeps on twisting to a new direction, though it wasn't completley unexpected and didn't surprise me, which is one of the things I want from a Tarantino movie.

    But you can't beat his unique vision and the script and the colorful characters he creates... and the simplicity of everything else makes it work. There is no large extravagant sets, no over the top expenditure on filming and production and certainly no frills. Its honest, simple and effective filmmaking, which is true Tarantino style - letting the raw movie, the cast and the direction do its work, which is what makes him such a great director.

    A good movie with different ideas, but I think Tarantino needs to step back and go back to his uniqueness. I know he has a great love for the old exploitave cinema and b grade flicks, but his best work has usually been the most unique, and Inglorious Basterds is not a unique idea, but a made with a unique concept, which is why I dont think it had a great effect on me.
  • November 23, 2009
    What can I say. Tarantino always finds new ways to amaze the viewer. This was the opportunity of Inglorious Basterds, a movie full of action, drama and a little bit of black humor that we're used to watch in all Tarantino's movies. It is perfectly narrated and with an excellent r...( read more)hythm, yeah it maybe a little bloody but its never gross, its like I like say entertaining and justified violence. The story is excellent, set in WW II, a group of Jewish soldiers named "the basterds" travel throughout the Nazi occupied Europe killing German soldiers as an act of revenge, and the plot is perfectly written full of twists and with an unexpected ending. The cast is awesome, Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz, Til Schweiger and even Mike Myers in a very short appearance were astonishing perfect. To conclude, Inglorious Basterds is the best movie from Quentin Tarantino maybe since Pulp Fiction, fully recommended and totally worthy.
  • November 18, 2009
    "Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France..."

    In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds so...( read more)on cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

    REVIEW

    Quentin Tarantino's epic homage to WWII 'men on a mission' films like "The Dirty Dozen" gets his ya-yas out big time in the Herculean task of a revenge fantasy involving the titular band of brothers, a platoon of 8 Jewish American soldiers led by the no- guts, no-glory Lt. Aldo Raine (Pitt, chewing every morsel of cinematic sinew from the bone, in QT's nod to film god Aldo Ray), a Hillbilly from hell, who are out to scalp & kill Nazis while a feverish plan to off the German's military elite - including Hitler ? in a world premiere event at a French occupied cinema run by survivor Shosanna Dreyfus (the beguilingly stoic Laurent), who also wants blood-soaked revenge for the murders of her family by Nazi detective Col. Hans Landa (Waltz, a shoo-in for Best Supporting Actor, as the evil hubris loving baddie here) whose uncanny knack for finding the truth may be his Achilles' heel. Blood-drenched with enough gallows' humor & QT's signature dialogue spewing get the best of the film's intentions in the long run but how can you fault him when this is clearly a valentine to cinema overall. One of the year's best.
  • November 17, 2009
    Beyond bad. Not even much fun to poke out of it. Mélanie Laurent's great however.

    Post scriptum:
    When I left the theater and wrote this I thought it would be evident for any one that this film was plain bad. But turns out it ain't, many of my friends actually quite enjoyed it. S...( read more)o here are a few arguments:

    - I don't see the interest of having two stories totally unrelated to each other within this film. The producer should have grown a pain and told Tarantino to pick inbetween two plots not to go for both. The result of this is that at the end they end up killing Hitler three times. Surely the guy was bad but to the point of needing to be shot, blown to pieces and then burned, just to make sure, that's a bit of overkill. The result is that you cannot build up interest for any of the two stories they canabilize one another.

    - Still on the story side, in as much as I have nothing against the scenaristic idea of killing Hitler, I do have a problem with pretty much all the rest. Frankly, who is to believe that a bunch of renegade Jewish soldiers could ever go around France for weeks without speaking French? In the same way who ever heard of Jewish dairy farmers in Western Europe? Etc. all these huge mistakes accumulated create a totally unbelievable framework that prevented me from appreciating the flick.

    - I really appreciated the effort of using a handful of languages in the film, it is always interesting. BUT for heaven's sake please have someone who speaks the language as well help the director, The result is that Tarantino was certainly unable to tell at what point Diane Kruger and specially Jacky Ido were off when playing.

    - It is understandable that Tarantino wants to break the codes or whatever he wants to do, but sometimes it just goes too far. In particular, the spectator is expected to care about a number of character he knows nothing about and who die tragically. It simply does not work like that.

    I could add a few other stuff, but most importantly, the film is ugly. It looks like it was edited by a monkey under drugs, the set is awful and the image looks like it was dept in milk for 4 days.

    So let me restate what is for me the obvious: this film is crap.

    PPS just remembering this white light makes me puke...

    BTW I've been told that Renoir used to say that humanism in movies was to give every character a reason to act as he dos, bad guys are not doing bad thing because they are bad but because they see it as good for them. For many characters in I.B. this aspect is totally missing, why is Brad Pitt character so anti-German? And it is true for most of the characters (I mean hello, Marcel accepts to burn alive for a love that is barely suggested, that's a bit too much).

    Oh and I forget to mention that I like some brain in my movies (I don't mean brain matter spread on the carpet but intelligence), just a touch, and frankly there is none whatsoever in this one. Come on, a story about an occupation force should have talked to an US director in the naughties. But no nothing. Quite unfortunate that Trantino forgot Melville who he said he loved and who has shot some of the rawest scenes about France during WWII.
  • November 11, 2009
    Time will tell if this is truly Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece, but in the very least it detracts nothing from his reputation as one of the most unique and talented American directors in modern film. What could have been a zany action picture is nearer a triumph of arthouse cine...( read more)ma; what could have been a self-obsessed homage is instead a completely original opus that transcends its inspirations as much as it loves them. The film is too idiosyncratic to be classified and too audacious to be paraphrased. Despite a few apparently unnecessary scenes and the distracting recognizability of Brad Pitt, the film holds together thanks to Tarantino's imitable writing and direction and the Oscar-caliber dexterity of its cast. Tarantino's movies tend to age well because they linger in mind, revealing their genius slowly, and this will be no exception.
  • November 30, 2009
    fantastic performance coming from both brad and christoph waltz...outrageously perfect
  • November 30, 2009
    Funny tense and well acted, there should be more films like this.
  • November 29, 2009
    (22.11.2009 tarihinde izlendi)

    A??r tempoda ilerleyen bir quentin tarantino filmidir. Zira Film'i roman havas?nda bölümlere ay?rmas? ho? olmu?tur. Bu bölümlerden de en tempolu geçeni ise 5. bölümdür. Film, nazilerle ve 2. dünya sava??yla ince ince alay ediyor. Yine önceki tarant...( read more)ino filmlerinde oldu?u gibi pek canl? kimse kalm?yor ama öyle kan gölü felanda yok filmde. Brad pitt yine oyunculukta döktürmü? oras?da ayr? bir konu tabi. K?saca demeliyim ki; E?er tarantino hastas?ysan?z izleyin filmi yok hiç izlemediyseniz b?rak?n ba?la film izleyin s?k?labilirsiniz...
  • November 29, 2009
    It's one of the Tarantino's best movies. Incredible caracters with some amazing and funny dialogues.
  • November 29, 2009
    Seen it and very disappointed

Critic Reviews


August 21, 2009
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

I'm tempted to say Tarantino has done it again, but I doubt anyone has ever done anything like his dazzlingly original World War II movie, Inglourious Basterds. full review

August 21, 2009
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Will Basterds polarize audiences? That's a given. But for anyone professing true movie love, there's no resisting it. full review

August 21, 2009
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

The picture contains all the things his fans like about Tarantino -- the wit, the audacity, the sudden violence -- but this movie's emotional core and bigness of spirit are new. full review

August 21, 2009
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times

Whirled around the floor of a story that goes absolutely nowhere, contains no human verities, has no significant heft as historical drama, yet still proves, now and then, an entertaining piece of Pop ... full review

August 21, 2009
Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com

Amongst all the filmmakers working today, no one inspires more passionate discussion, debate and analysis than Quentin Tarantino. full review

August 20, 2009
Claudia Puig, USA Today

The outcome is gory and glorious. full review

August 20, 2009
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Inglorious Basterds is an entertainment but an uneasy one; it represents 153 minutes of bravura stalling, after which its creator loses interest and walks away. full review

August 20, 2009
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

Tonally schizoid and rife with anachronisms (a David Bowie song on the sound track, out-of-era vernacular), Tarantino's Third Reich folly is utterly exasperating. full review

August 20, 2009
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

Something close to an ideal Tarantino flick, an impertinent and often tasteless epic that rewrites WII history as a fairy tale for gonzo genre kicks. full review

August 20, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a big, bold, audacious war movie that will annoy some, startle others and demonstrate once again that he's the real thing, a director of quixotic delights. full review

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Comments


  • shivusharma87
    October 20, 2009
    it,s a very hooror
  • SJMJ91
    August 30, 2009
    Inglourious Basterds truly reveals Quentin's love for cinema!
  • hussnainsyedd
    August 30, 2009
    Friendship is not a game to play, It is not a word to say, It doesn't start on March and ends on May, It is tomorrow, yesterday, today and everyday.
  • dsoul
    August 29, 2009
    Inglourious Basterds takes a genre, which you no doubt know so well as there are so many different war movies and does something new and original with it. Tarantino fakes right and he goes left, fakes left and goes right, just when you think you have a pattern figured out he does something completely different. Thats what this fairy-tale is all about. Taking what you know and making it funny, violent and dramatic. Awesome movie.
  • drblood
    August 25, 2009
    This was the worst movie from any genre that I've ever watched. Even those handycam movies shot in somebody's back garden with a bunch of beer guzzling friends are better than this dreck. Yeah, like all America needs right now is another film that makes a mockery out of history and let's them think that they were solely responsible for winning WWII. As if they were even there in the first place! Utter crap from start to finish.
  • ilikemydinohead
    August 23, 2009
    lol, i pronounce it inn-glow-ree-us bass-turds.

    i'd like to watch this movie :O
  • jtjewels1
    August 20, 2009
    I'm going to see it this weekend! XD
  • lahaie4
    June 10, 2009
    August 21 semms so far...I must see Inglourious basterds NOW.
  • Rossjm
    February 14, 2009
    You know what? I thunk Mike Myers might pleasently surprise us. He is good in some of his earlier comic roles (Austin Powers for example) and maybe he can pull of serious. But knowing Tarantino, he will probably be given a funny character, as most of his films have one.

    And I can't wait to see Cloris Leachman. She was excellent in the Mel Brooks spoofs and was good in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock presents.
  • itbegins2005
    September 14, 2008
    I just have one question:

    Mike Myers?

    Really?

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