Inglourious Basterds Reviews and Ratings


  • tnoose
    December 7, 2009
    tnoose
    Entertaining from start to finish!!
  • stephmccracken
    December 7, 2009
    stephmccracken
    Without Christoph Waltz this movie would have been too pretentious to handle I think. As Hans Landa toys with the poor milk farmer I was captivated, horrified, and smiled a few times. Its all about the chatty chat with Tarantino. I might change my mind about this on the second wa...( read more)tch, but Brad Pitt made things a bit awkward for me. He was a sore thumb in a character driven flick.
  • Jameshy
    December 7, 2009
    Jameshy
    Absolute class! Has restored my faith in QT. Ultra violence against nazis with no let-up on gory details and some of the blackest humor ever. Who cares whether it's not historically accurate it's a movie for fucks sake and it happens to be a remake of an old italian film as wel...( read more)l.
    Every secene is soaked with tension so i was on edge the whole time. The first scene is pretty gut wrenching watching the farmer battle his conscience to give up the position of the hiding jews. Christoph Waltz absolutely nails his part and deserves a lot of credit for bringing such a monster to life. He's the sort of character that pretends to be your best friend while all the time plotting how he'll take you down. Truely evil but very funny. Pitt was ok, i think the crap accents were on purpose. Eli Roth is shit i don't know why he acts in film because he is terrible and a terrible director who just happens to be QT's mate so he gets parts. I enjoyed every scene and as usual each scene felt like you were watching a different short film which ultimatley came together to form the explosive ending. The language in the movie is great too, characters just chatting bollocks which is a QT trademark but really helps you to get to know them. You couldn't work out where this film was going and I enjoyed every minute of it because of this. One of the best of the year!
  • lobeo
    December 7, 2009
    lobeo
    Poorly cast. Poorly acted (with the exception of the German characters, who ended up being the only interesting ones).
  • marcelovoliveira2
    December 6, 2009
    marcelovoliveira2
    "You probably heard we ain't in the prisoner-takin' business; we in the killin' Nazi business. And cousin, Business is a-boomin'."

    Awesome movie. On my first viewing, I thought it dragging way too much in some scenes, but when I watched again I completely chaged my opinion. Asid...( read more)e from the scene with Mike Meyers, which was painful in every way, I don't think there's a scene in this movie that I don't like. Exciting, funny, violent, and with some of the best characters Tarantino ever created. Christoph Waltz is incomparable, Brad Pitt is almost flawless, and Mélanie Laurent created my so far favourite character of the year. Some little problems with the editing, and some specific events on the script, but by all means, mr. Quentin did it again.
  • cosmo313
    December 6, 2009
    cosmo313
    This is art, not history. This is a film in love with and all about cinema. Considering who directs it, this shouldn't be surprising. Another defining characteristic of the film is that it is basically a spaghetti western with World War II iconography. It's also one of the best f...( read more)ilms of 2009, possibly the decade, and very high on the list of Tarantino's best. This is a strange, wonderful, and very unique film. The trailers are very misleading, which is unfortunate. As much as I would have loved to have seen 2 and a 1/2 hours of nazis being scalped and getting beaten with a baseball bat, I'm glad the film didn't take that direction. One review I saw described the movie as being like the end of Pulp Fiction (the long scene of people sitting at the table and talking), but times 12. That's about right. The great thing though, is that like all Tarantino films, the dialogue is fantastic. Who would have thught that one could get so much joy from hearing people sit around and talk? I give the movie big props for taking a realistic approach to the dialogue by having the foreign characters speak in foreign languages instead of with accents. Yes, that means the film is subtitled A LOT. Deal with it. The acting is also superb. Waltz is the highlight, giving a chilling performance as a nazi who is both ruthless but charming. Laurent is the next standout. Pitt is a joy, but his performance is not as amazing as the others, probably because he isn't in the movie as much as one might think. It's still a great performance though. Kruger gives what is probably her best performance yet, and Eli Roth is just a hoot as the "Bear Jew". This is a surprising film, but the biggest and best surprise is the music, specifically the montage set to a David Bowie song. Besides the fact that the song is used anachronistically, it actually fits perfectly-nver feeling out of place. That's a sign of genius. While this film is baffling and shatters expectations left and right (in good or bad ways), it needs to be seen. This is truly a unique and incredible work of art.
  • Ametrine
    December 6, 2009
    Ametrine
    As a movie it was good, too long for my taste, but good. However, i expected for much more action than we received.
    What made the movie good, were the solid characters and damn good acting we received from the key actors.
  • ReincarnatedRockstarVamp
    December 5, 2009
    ReincarnatedRockstarVamp
    "Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France..."

    In a way a typical Tarantino movie where we have many different stories that mix together in the end to one single plot.
    Quentin Tarantino is the master of these kind of movies. Action, some mild gore (I was honestly rather...( read more) repulsed at some scenes) and brilliant dark humor.

    It is basically Tarantino's version of WWII with a very colourful and pretty brilliant cast.
    It jumps from Nazi propaganda to jew-hunting and then over to some sort of one sided romance between a jewish girl and a german war hero.

    Not as surprising and twisting(?) plot as I expected. Pretty long and well...most of it is in french or german, so if you don't like that don't even bother watching it.

    All in all it was a good movie, although not exactly what I expected.




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  • luiser2gh
    December 4, 2009
    luiser2gh
    Another fantastic film from Quentin Tarantino.-
  • ElDuderinoLebowski
    December 4, 2009
    ElDuderinoLebowski
    Please, stop with the misinterpretation's. The film isn't anti-semitic in the slightest bit, it's a film of distinction. This film satiates the audiences' bloodlust while hinting at it's distaste for this kind of reaction, with the jabs at the audience being most noticeable as Hi...( read more)tler goes into hysterics watching Nation's Pride(a film that is nothing but shooting the "enemy"). Basically, Tarantino is exclaiming his anger at the ones who call people that are nothing more than slightly justified servers of vengeance as heroes. Remember, this film is not anti-war, but it's condemning the ideals of movies like The Punisher. I'm not saying that the film's point is "let the enemy be", it's saying you're no different than your enemy if you use the same tactics on them, you're stooping to their level in order to defeat them. That's the difference between "serving your country" and being vengeful, a distinction this film makes.
  • ogeiD
    December 4, 2009
    ogeiD
    Usually, I?m always think twice before I go to watch a movie about WWII (and Nazis), Vietnam, etc. because out there?s a lot of great flicks which literally diminish any new attempt to film some story about them. However, I?ve had a few surprises recently so I?ve decided to give ...( read more)to most of them a shot, especially when a genius like Tarantino tries.

    ¿The result? Black humor everywhere and an entertaining script executed beautifully. I enjoyed so much, particularly the Christoph Waltz?s performance, every time he was out of camera, I was looking forward for the next appearance: just extraordinary.

    The movie format has the Tarantino signature written all over, following, principally, what he did in Kill Bill: Volume 1, except for the industrial quantities of blood, so it?s inevitable to chuckle when you often identify the obvious resemblance.

    Totally worth it, and one of the best movies in a year extremely poor in good productions. Unbelievable, but after all this years, Tarantino and Pitt, do again an excellent job. Amazing.
  • iamlonely1
    December 3, 2009
    iamlonely1
    modern masterpiece...
  • Zanjum28
    December 2, 2009
    Zanjum28
    The tension in the first part of this movie (i.e chapter 1) is really exceptional, and i think probably the best part of the movie. It's told in a kind of Kill Bill style (or Kill Hitler style should i say!) with chapters and lots of bloodshed. Got to hand it to Tarantino he's p...( read more)ulled another one out the bag, if he keeps this up we might even forget about that shambles of a movie he made last time!
  • xtremeandy
    December 2, 2009
    xtremeandy
    Tarantinos Finest this movie was funny bloody and good and it has a super intelligent dialogue!! and that is something I love Yes!! it doesn't matter if it became slow at some point it was just needed!! and it actually felt like a piece of cinema history!! no movie does that when...( read more) almost everything is a bogus story!! and yes it feels serious and I mean it!! Pitt does a wonderful job and so does the great cast that was in the movie!!

    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 soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers

    In Nazi occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movie premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history.

    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 )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...



    The main theme of the film is revenge. The film is set in an alternate history of the Second World War in which the entire top leadership of Nazi Germany, namely Hitler, Goering, Goebbels and Bormann attend a film premiere in Paris celebrating the exploits of a German sniper who had managed to kill 300 American soldiers in Italy. Most of the film's timeframe is set in early June 1944, after the D-Day landings but before the liberation of Paris.

    The film tracks the separate attempts to kill Hitler by two disparate forces, one being the "Basterds", a motley crew of Jewish American soldiers out for revenge against the Nazis. The Basterds have a modus operandi whereby each man must cut off the scalp of a dead Nazi soldier, with orders to get 100 scalps each. The Basterds allow one German soldier to survive each incident so as to spread the news of the terror of their attacks. However, the Basterds carve a swastika into the forehead of that German. The other force concerns Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent), the only survivor of a Jewish family killed by the Jew Hunter, who plots her own revenge on the Nazis. The Basterds and Shosanna remain unaware of each other throughout the film.

    The film is divided into 5 chapters 1. Once Upon a TimeIn Nazi Occupied France 1941. 2. Inglourious Basterds. 3. German Nights in Paris. 4. Operation Kino. 5. Revenge of the Giant Face.

    Chapter One: "Once Upon a Time .......... In Nazi Occupied France (1941)" The film opens in 1941 with Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) of the Waffen-SS, proudly known as the "Jew Hunter", interrogating Perrier LaPadite (Denis Menochet), a French dairy farmer, over rumours that he had been hiding a Jewish family. By dropping a subtle hint about whether or not to leave LaPadite's family alone in the future, Landa manages to break down LaPadite and locates the hiding place of the Jews underneath the floorboards. He orders his soldiers to fire into the floorboards, killing all but the teenage Shosanna.

    Chapter Two: "Inglourious Basterds" The second chapter is set in 1944 prior to the Allied invasion of France. It begins with Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) addressing in formation his newly formed 8 man Jewish-American commando unit. He proceeds to explain to them, in drill sergeant style, that they will be dropped behind enemy lines to cause havoc to all Nazi soldiers they come across with the goal of bringing fear into the heart of the enemy. He further explains to them that the normal standards of military conduct will not apply because the Nazis themselves have no humanity and are not deserving of any humanity in return. He mentions that he has Apache blood running through his veins and that all the man in his command owes him 100 Nazi scalps. We are then juxtaposed to a scene showing us Adolf Hitler (Martin Wuttke) angrily ridiculing two of his military command for not be able to deal with the Basterds and how the activity of the Basterds is having a negative effect upon his fighting men. Hitler then interviews Private Butz (Soenke Möhring )who was recently taken prisoner by the Basterds. As Butz responds to Hitlers questions we see Butzs ordeal via flashbacks beginning with Lt. Raines interview of another survivor Sgt. Werner Rachtman (Richard Sammel). Lt. Raine threatens him with death if he does not disclose the whereabouts of another Nazi patrol that is near at hand. Werner is adamant that he will not provide information that could possibly harm other German soldiers and Lt. Raine then calls Sgt. Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth), known as the Bear Jew to beat Sgt. Rachtman to death with a baseball bat which he proceeds to do. Lt. Raine then interrogates Private Butz with the help of Cpl.Willem Wicki (Gideon Burkhard)who acts as interpreter. Private Butz quickly provides the Basterds with all they need to know after which Lt. Raine lets Private Butz go but not before doing so carves a swastika in Butzs forehead with his own customized mountain man Bowie knife. Swastika carving is Lt. Raines trademark. The scene ends with Sgt. Donowitz commenting to Lt. Raine that he is becoming quite good at carving swastikas. Lt. Raine responds: You know how you get to Carnegie Hall dont ya. Practice.

    Chapter Three: "German Nights in Paris" Four years later, by 1944, Shosanna has assumed the identity of "Emmanuelle Mimieux". How she manages to do so is not revealed. She has also become the proprietress of a cinema, which is chosen by Frederick Zoller (Daniel Brühl), a spotlight-hungry sniper-turned-actor whose exploits are celebrated in the Nazi propaganda film, Stolz der Nation (A Nation's Pride), as the setting for the film premiere. He is attracted to Shosanna and convinces Goebbels to hold the premiere in her cinema. Shosanna does not reciprocate Zoller's feelings.

    Shosanna realizes that the presence of so many high ranking Nazi officials and officers provides an excellent opportunity for revenge. She resolves to burn down her cinema using the massive quantities of flammable nitrate film in her storage rooms during the premiere and makes a fourth reel in which she tells the Nazis present of her Jewish identity and revenge.

    Chapter Four: "Operation Kino" In the meantime, the British have also learned of the Nazi leadership's plan to attend the premiere and dispatch a British officer, Lt. Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender), to Paris to lead an attack on the cinema with the aid of the "Basterds" and a German double agent, an actress by the name of Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger).

    Hammersmark arranges to meet Hicox and the Basterds in the basement of a French tavern. Unbeknown to her, however, the night of the rendezvous is also the occasion of a German staff sergeant (Alexander Fehling) celebrating the birth of his son with his soldier comrades. One of the German soldiers present strikes up a conversation with Hicox and notices that his accent is "odd". An SS officer (August Diehl) who is in the tavern as well also notices that odd accent. When Hicox gives the wrong three fingered order for whiskies (without using his thumb, a traditional German gesture), the SS officer realizes their deception. A firefight breaks out in which the British officer and two of the "Basterds" are killed as is everyone in the tavern except Hammersmark, who is wounded in her left leg.

    Chapter Five: "Revenge of the Giant Face" Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), a U.S. Army second lieutenant in the First Special Service Force [7] and the commanding officer of the Basterds, interrogates Hammersmark and decides to continue the operation against the cinema under the guise of Italians as suicide bombers. Colonel Landa, now an SD officer, is able to retrieve one of Hammersmark's shoes from the scene of the firefight at the tavern and also an autographed napkin which Hammersmark had signed for the staff sergeant's son. He approaches Hammersmark and Raine in the cinema lobby and is able to easily see through their disguises, as none, even Raine, can speak any Italian or German. He questions Hammersmark alone and makes her try on the shoe he had retrieved from the tavern. It is a perfect fit. He violently strangles her to death as a traitor, and orders the arrest of Raine. As Raine is driven off in a truck, he discovers one of his men, Private Utivich (B.J. Novak), has also been captured and is in the truck with him.

    In the closing stages of the film Quentin Tarantino sets the quirks which show that the film is in an alternative universe. Landa reveals himself to be a turncoat. While speaking with Raine and Utivich, he tells them that four major Nazi leaders must all be killed to end the war immediately. They are all attending Nation's Pride, and he is prepared to let the assassination continue-- for a price. He has no intention of helping end the war only to be tried by a Jewish tribunal for war crimes and end up facing the gallows. In order to help end the war, he wants to make a deal, one Raine cannot authorize, but his commanding officer (Harvey Keitel) can. Landa has his radio operator help Raine reach his general, where Landa states the terms of his deal-- he wants full military pension and benefits under his current rank, a medal of honor for everyone involved in the operation, American citizenship and a home on Nantucket Island. He also reveals that he had planted Raine's stick of dynamite in Hitler's box at the cinema, meaning that there are now three attempts against Hitler's life. Raine is placed on the radio and his general tells him that Landa and his radio operator will drive him and Utivich in a truck to American lines, then surrender to them, whereupon Raine will drive the truck to base and bring Landa and the operator to him for debriefing.

    Meanwhile, during the showing of Stolz der Nation, Shosanna and her assistant (and lover) Marcel (Jacky Ido) are manning the projection booth when he tells her it is time. He needs to lock the auditorium and go behind the screen. As Marcel makes his way toward the auditorium, two of the Basterds, Sgt. Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth) and Pvt. Omar Ulmer (Omar Doom), leave their seats and exit the auditorium heading upstairs to the balcony level. Donowitz carefully spies on the guards watching the entrance to Hitler's opera box from the nearest bathroom.

    Shosanna loads the doctored fourth reel of Stolz der Nation onto the projector camera as Marcel locks the auditorium doors, sliding the safety locks at the tops and bottoms of the doors into place, and then slides a heavy iron crowbar through the door handles, further barring them. He steps behind the screen where Shosanna had placed her entire stack of nitrate film. Shosanna pulls a lever to switch the projector to the doctored reel. Watching from behind the screen, Marcel lights up a smoke and waits.

    Meanwhile, Zoller, uncomfortable with the way he is portrayed killing Americans in Stolz der Nation, leaves the cinema auditorium and makes his way to the projectionist's room to hit on Shosanna. She is deeply concerned at his intrusion and tries to get rid of Zoller, but he pushes his way into the room and angrily confronts Shosanna about her treatment of him, warning her that she's no longer in a position to disrespect him. Needing to get Zoller out of the way, she asks him to lock the door, dropping a subtle hint, 'we don't have much time.' Soon as Zoller's back is turned to her, she pulls her gun from her purse and shoots him in the back, mortally wounding him. Quickly she glances into the auditorium to make sure she wasn't heard. Suddenly, she hears Zoller groan and realizes he's still alive. In an apparent moment of pity, she turns him over, and he shoots her dead.

    We see Donowitz and Ulmer preparing their ambush to take out the opera box guards. Donowitz is dressed as a waiter delivering a glass of champagne. The ambush goes off without a hitch and they kill both guards, taking their machine guns.

    Meanwhile, we see Hitler greatly enjoying the battle scene in the movie, where Zoller is taking out numerous American soldiers by himself. But his joy comes to a quick end when Zoller's challenge (in Stolz der Nation) is answered with the changes Shosanna made to the fourth reel. She tells the audience that they're all going to die, and she is a Jew ready to take revenge. On her cue, Marcel flicks his cigarette into the pile of nitrate film, igniting it. The fire bursts through the screen, causing a pandemonium in the auditorium. Just then, Donowitz and Ulmer burst into Hitler's box and gun down Hitler, Goebbels and the other Nazi leaders. As the cinema is engulfed in flames, they fire randomly into the crowd, who are attempting to flee, but escape is impossible, as the auditorium doors are now locked and barred. Finally, the dynamite that Landa had planted in Hitler's box, as well as the dynamite strapped to the Basterds' legs, now goes off. The cinema is destroyed in the subsequent inferno, killing all inside.

    In the final scene, Landa and his radio operator set off with Raine and Utivich towards the American lines in Normandy, as part of the deal he had made with Raine's commanding officer. At the American lines, he surrenders to Raine and hands over his gun and sword. Raine orders Utivich to handcuff Landa, and shoots the driver dead, ordering Utivich to scalp him over Landa's outraged protest. Raine reveals that while he appreciates Landa's underhanded deal and all the perks he's secured for himself, he is incensed that on arriving in America, Landa intended to take off his SS uniform and blend in to the American populace, with nobody remembering all the heinous deeds he committed as a Nazi officer. Raine plans to remedy that. The film ends with Raine carving a swastika into Landa's forehead and declaring that it may just be his greatest 'masterpiece.'
  • phubbs1
    December 2, 2009
    phubbs1
    Typical Tarantino springs to mind with this, like almost every film he has made the style or mixed story lines is always evident and to be honest its kinda old now. Much like Pulp Fiction the stories jump around and intertwine themselves until you get the finished final story end...( read more)ing which wraps it all together, the stories aren't really that interesting and again in Tarantino style there are huge amounts useless dialog and not much else.
    I've never seen the original Bastards film so I cant compare but suffice to say this new version is probably much more bloody and alittle unpleasant at times too, some scenes of death are quite nasty and leave a nasty after taste or feeling inside, you have to wonder why it needed to be quite so graphic at times, eg. a German officer getting his head and body smashed to bits by a baseball bat wielding US soldier, much to the delight of his comrades.

    The acting is a total cross of brilliance and crapola, the brilliance being Christoph Waltz as a German officer, his performance is both intriguing and alluring as he switches between four European accents and shows a tour de force of acting. The crapola being Pitt as the US Lt, he is badly badly cast and shows how shite an actor he really is when you compare him to all the other performers, terrible choice and clearly made to bring in the $$$. Mélanie Laurent and Diane Kruger also give great performances both showing their bilingual and emotional skills in top form, the use of Euro languages does give the film a much needed boost of realism and competence which saves it from total disaster frankly.

    A film of two halves really, its fine in places but bad in most, its also unnecessary violent in the small scenes of action and has way too much pointless speech in others. Don't believe the hype with this, just because Tarantino made it means nothing and rehashing the same formula in which to make a film is also a good way to bore people, Quentin needs to move on and try new ways of creating his films. Gloriously dull and overrated.
  • Ssscilla
    December 2, 2009
    Ssscilla
    Crazy, funny and bloody.

    Quentin proved himself once again that he can create great movie, with lot of blood in it. Great cast, awesome make-up, music was interesting and the characters were totally crazy. I especially liked Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz, strange and quiet German psychopa...( read more)th who was played by amazing Til Schweiger. Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa aka "The Jew Hunter", ruthless, yet charming Austro-German SD officer was unbelievable brilliant.
    Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Daniel Bruhl and Brad Pitt were cool as well, making this movie even better.
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    Col. Hans Landa: [giddy] That's a bingo!
    Lt. Aldo Raine: [Lt. Aldo and PFC. Utivich stare at him in confusion]
    Col. Hans Landa: Is that the way you say it: "That's a bingo?"
    Lt. Aldo Raine: You just say "bingo".
    Col. Hans Landa: Ahhh! BINGO! What fun! But, I digress. Where were we?
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    Narrator: The reason for Hugo Stiglitz's celebrity among German soldiers is simple. As a German enlisted man, he killed thirteen Gestapo officers, mostly Majors. Instead of putting him up against a wall, the High Command decided to send him back to Berlin, to be made an example of. Needless to say, once the Basterds heard of him, he never got there.
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    Shosanna Dreyfus: My name is Shosanna Dreyfus and THIS is the face... of Jewish vengeance! ..........................................................................................................................
    Joseph Goebbels: [to Frederick] It seems I've created a monster. A strangely persuasive monster.
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    Col. Hans Landa: Monsieur LaPadite, to both your family and your cows I say: Bravo.
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    Col. Hans Landa: Au Revoir Shosanna!
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    General Ed Fenech: [On the Germans attending the film premeire] We have all our rotten eggs in one basket. The objective of the operation: blow up the basket.
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  • unsraw
    December 2, 2009
    unsraw
    Kind of a dissapointment. Tarantino is overusing his trademark dialogues in this movie. This makes the first one and a half hour of the movie kind of boring as it is not mixed in with the action like in his earlier movies.

    The last hour was cool though.
  • rocketred89
    December 1, 2009
    rocketred89
    This movie really made me want to see Nazi's die horribly.

    And they did.
  • kololee
    December 1, 2009
    kololee
    Overrated boring movie, held up by some good acting performances.

    If you liked Snatch or The Departed, then watch this.
  • kigaiyuuto
    December 1, 2009
    kigaiyuuto
    Light on gore, but it keeps my attention til the end. A lot of amateurish mistakes in this film (ie: there should be guards everywhere in the cinema which Hitler watches the movie and there should be some troops guarding outside.)
  • andreizisgigi
    November 30, 2009
    andreizisgigi
    fantastic performance coming from both brad and christoph waltz...outrageously perfect
  • louisegrassie
    November 30, 2009
    louisegrassie
    Funny tense and well acted, there should be more films like this.
  • ophioneus
    November 29, 2009
    ophioneus
    (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...
  • richarley
    November 29, 2009
    richarley
    It's one of the Tarantino's best movies. Incredible caracters with some amazing and funny dialogues.
  • limeylace
    November 29, 2009
    limeylace
    Seen it and very disappointed
  • elpasmo
    November 29, 2009
    elpasmo
    I hate hype... I expected more from this film... Still, you can enjoy it.
  • mvieaddict
    November 29, 2009
    mvieaddict
    I am not used to Quentin Tarantino's movie, I know he is some crazy SOB director, thirst for blood and violence and in Inglorious Bastards it was no different. Every scene of this movie was beautifully shot and wonderful to watch. I am not a violence movie fan, but IB was sure fu...( read more)ll of action and suspense. The cast was also great, Brad Pitt was absolutely hilarious as Bastard leader, Lt. Aldo Raine, nasty, bloodthirsty,sadistic, but still quite funny with his southern accent.This was my first Tarantino movie and I quite enjoyed. I think he is good at what he does, and that makes his movies enjoyable, and he has his fans.
  • jlkid
    November 29, 2009
    jlkid
    I love this movie, it was a masterpiece!
  • mrsmmulder
    November 29, 2009
    mrsmmulder
    great, funny and enjoyable.
  • tsingchie
    November 29, 2009
    tsingchie
    The monologue scenes from Quentin is still going strong.
  • appubhattathiri
    November 29, 2009
    appubhattathiri
    Revenge is best served Tarantino style. Inglourious basterds is has two plots running parallel. I loved the revenge plot and that does not mean that the other story was bad. Christopher Waltz is one brilliant character penned by QT. Brad Pitt is simply a superb basterd! Cinematog...( read more)raphy and editing is topclass from the word go! The Godfather reference in the last chapter is nothing but classic humour. I wish the inglourious basterds was a bit more longer...
  • brownrecluse62
    November 28, 2009
    brownrecluse62
    This is a nifty idea: a tongue-in-cheek, reference-laden alternate-history piece in which the entire fate of the Third Reich is literally contained in a cinema. A disjointed film, for sure, but it's got some good scenes and a nice construct in a dreamworld of history woven from i...( read more)mpressions of old movies. My favorite scene was probably the one with Mike Myers and Michael Fassbender talking about UFA, with Rod Taylor (!) as Churchill sitting in the background. Toward the end it really got into an entertaining, exciting groove, but then suddenly I felt weird: do we really need this? Do we really need to machine-gun a dead Hitler, with Eli Roth as our Jewish revenge-seeking surrogate? I'm still not sure. I liked the tender Hitler-Goebbels chemistry, though.
  • 21rclemente
    November 28, 2009
    21rclemente
    Damn good Tarantino movie if I do say so myself. Packed with dialog, in no way a Pulp Fiction, but the best movie containing over 1 1/2 hours of subtitles that I have ever seen. Quentin's humor litters the script and there are several scenes that make it undeneyably a Tarantino g...( read more)ore.
  • malacaynomuerto
    November 28, 2009
    malacaynomuerto
    Wow, Wow, WOW!!!!!! Tarantino nuevamente lo hace, joder que buena película, una reinterpretaci'on de la historia muy divertida!!!!

    La mejor muerte en rojo!!!!!!

    Personajes que sin duda quedaran en la memoria

    El coronel Hans Landa joder que personaje!!!
  • MightySparks
    November 28, 2009
    MightySparks
    I like Quentin Tarantino, but I hate Brad Pitt. And it looked like it was going to be long and gay. But I really enjoyed it.

    The opening scene was brilliant. Amazing. The acting throughout was good, especially from Christoph Waltz and Melanie Laurent. And I never praise female p...( read more)erformances so that's saying something (the only other ones I've liked: Louise Fletcher in One Flew, Kathy Bates in Misery... and I'm pretty sure there's someone else but I can't remember).

    It was funny, and well-written (well, obviously, it's Tarantino). Yeah. I hate praising movies, I can never do it well.
  • DarkHarmony
    November 28, 2009
    DarkHarmony
    A typical Tarantino classic. German occupied France in World War II . The German high rankers along with their fuhrer attend a premiere of the film 'Nation's Pride' which showcases the bravery of a local German hero while a group of Jewish American Nazi slaying son of a guns infa...( read more)mously known to be the Basterds leaded by Aldoraine (Brad Pitt) execute their master plan to eliminate the Nazi power by blowing up the cinema. While the Basterds get in the theater disguised as the famous German actress Bridget Von Hammersmark's( played by Diane Kruger as a double agent) photographer and co., the dreadful detective Col. Hans Landa(Christoph Waltz) is hot on the Basterds tail. While this main plot unfolds another sub plot involving the theater owner , a jew,(Melanie Laurent) unfolds in which she plans to burn up the cinema killing all the germans to avenge the massacre of his family by Col. Hans Landa's men.

    D Day. Col. Hans Landa finds out everything and he takes Bridget Von Hammersmark aside and kills her nd arrests Aldo Raine. The theater owner is successful in her attempt to burn down the cinema while the bombs brought by the basterds act as a catalyst to the fire. But wait before that happens Hans Landa got the opportunity to prevent it all but he wass too greedy and unexpectedly made a deal with the Americans and let the Nazi Empire fall.



    A classic Tarantino film with the films split up into five chapters. The direction was totally Tarantino a.k.a. great. The sub plot increased the intensity and the cinematography was great . The characters i felt were well thought out each having its own importance and lending its own unique style to the picture. The twists and turns were great ... specially the last ending twist and as theres a dash of comedy thrown into it it makes the film even more likable . Lastly and the most importantly the performances of Brad Pitt and Christoph Waltz...... awesome. Brad Pitt delivered another great performance in the form of Aldo Raine who is a cool yet determined Nazi hunter who marks all the Germans he lets go of by carving the Swastika symbol in the mans forehead. And then comes Christoph Waltz the smooth talking multilingual devilish Jew Hunter whose countenance can lead any man astray. He delivers an probable Oscar winning performance with a whole lot of cynicism in his act.

    The film does not fail to give you the thrills you need and is less gory as as compared to other Tarantino films . A must watch!
  • ericvulpi
    November 28, 2009
    ericvulpi
    A little disappointing compared to other Tarantino movies. Not as original or funny as the others
  • guitarchika7
    November 28, 2009
    guitarchika7
    Tarintino is from Knoxville, TN- my hometown. =)
  • andrzejbanas
    November 27, 2009
    andrzejbanas
    Even at it's 2 and a half hour running length the entire place of Inglourious Basterds left me wanting more. There are some great scenes and generous amounts of style and dialogue that Tarantino fans adore but with so many characters running around and being introduced at several...( read more) intervals it's easy to not get into their stories enough to really feel for them and their trials. I remember reading that the original film was going to be about 6 hours long and honestly, I wish this was. I would feel more in tune with everything happening. So outside the score that involves a hell of a lot of Morricone and film references (ranging from classic Euro-cinema from G.W. Pabst and Henri-Georges Clouzot and Max Linder to trash like Eli Roths' character being named Antonio Margheriti.) If making references to old films make a film better, every Joe Dante film would be a masterpiece.

    If I ever get to see a full length version of the full with the fill script I'll re-review it. As of now, this is butchered Tarantino that left me wanting more.
  • ofriel
    November 27, 2009
    ofriel
    Classic Tarantino. Three great scenes interspersed with lots of gore. Or was that lots of gore interrupted by three great scenes.
  • mcprescribed
    November 27, 2009
    mcprescribed
    Was different to what I expected, was quite slow moving I thought but kept me interested all the way through! def worth a watch, Brad Pitt was very funny, I assume he was meant to be completely silly with his accents in terms of there validity. I'd hope at least!
  • phaleg
    November 27, 2009
    phaleg
    mas bien lenta. larguisismos dialogos que pretenden darselas de "simbolicos" y que solo logran aburrir
  • rayld02
    November 27, 2009
    rayld02
    It is so easy to give a perfect five for this film. It is a madness for ultraviolence that Tarantino has made this film quite an excitement. Like Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange", "Inglourious Basterds" talks mostly about the deepest human emotions, and their ability to do ...( read more)anything for the convenience of doing such. This is how harmful people can think, and it has dominated its audience with the complexities of too broad and familiar emotions. It is drama of surviving every other character's tactfulness which is brought up till the end of the film. The film employs so many beautiful action cuts and characters with which we get acquainted with seriously. The film's comedic storyline never failed to be a charm, and stellar performances by its actors and director.
  • KhrisP
    November 27, 2009
    KhrisP
    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.
  • sebastian771
    November 26, 2009
    sebastian771
    1 of quentin tarantino's better movies after kill bill both volumes and,,,

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Inglourious Basterds Summary