Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino's World War II film, set behind the front line in occupied France. Stars Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Mélanie Laurent and Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz.
Brad Pitt leads a gang of Jewish Americans tormenting Nazis behind enemy lines, who put together a plot to cause chaos at a Parisian screening of a German propaganda film. Meanwhile, a woman who works at the movie theatre is hatching a revenge plan of her own.
- Director:
- Quentin Tarantino ('Death Proof', 'Kill Bill', 'Jackie Brown', 'Pulp Fiction', 'Reservoir Dogs')
- Cast:
- Brad PittChristoph WaltzMélanie LaurentDiane KrugerDaniel BrühlMichael FassbenderTil SchweigerB.J. NovakEli RothSamm LevineMike Myers
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Andreas Heinemann
flicksVintage Tarantino returns to the big screen and he’s brought all his trademark moves with him. His only standard technique conspicuous by its absence is a time-shifting narrative but he compensates with liberal doses of spectacularly sensationalized violence and joyously amoral humour.
Tarantino's war masterpiece.
I have no shame in saying that this is one of my favorite films of all time. No other film has kept me captivated on the edge of witty dialogue for that long, nor have I been entranced with such mesmerizing performances and carefully executed camera work. This satire speaks to you, makes you laugh, whimper, smile sadistically with joy or just be plain...
Spaghetti WW2
4 stars? Only because it's by the same director as PULP FICTION. That said - this is a wonderfully skewered take on the WW2 movie genre, seen through a Sergio Leone lens. If you've seen Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, then BASTERDS is a glorious homage. Don't expect a realistic historical document - it's a movie! Let down only by an overlong scene in...
Gets better everytime
Now, Ive been to see this movie four times now. It just gets better with every viewing. Im at the point where I don't think I even need the sub-titles anymore. The acting of course is great, from Waltz in particular, but also I think a heartfelt and also a breakthrough performance from Melanie Laurent. I wouldnt be shocked if her name appears with waltz...
Putting Out Fire With Gasoline
Erroneously portrayed by its trailer as simply an excessively violent and relatively mindless World War Two parody chronicling the fictional exploits of American Lieutenant Aldo Raine and his rag tag bunch of soldiers, at its heart, Inglourious Basterds is a tragic tale of revenge portrayed through the character of Shosanna Dreyfus, a young French Jew who...
Nazi's talk about movies.
As per normal the movie is a comic book narrative made real, the violence present is brief and sudden and punctuates the dialogue which is just great. I expected it to be a bad movie and it was just great. Nothing is what you would expect from normal narrative convention in movies, if its self indulgent then good for tarantino.
finally
Variety
pressA violent fairy tale, an increasingly entertaining fantasia in which the history of World War II is wildly reimagined so that the cinema can play the decisive role in destroying the Third Reich.
Total Film
press“This ain’t your daddy’s WW2 flick,” reckons Tarantino. Too right: this exploitation epic is a unique beast that molests history, wrong-foots expectations and royally entertains. The movies’ coolest Basterd is back on his game.
New Zealand Herald
pressQT lets slip the reservoir dogs of war and delivers his best flick in some time.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe film is by no means terrible -- its two hours and 32 minutes running time races by -- but those things we think of as being Tarantino-esque, the long stretches of wickedly funny dialogue, the humor in the violence and outsized characters strutting across the screen, are largely missing.
Empire Magazine
pressWith a confidence typical of its director, the last line of Inglourious Basterds is, "This might just be my masterpiece." While that may not be true, this is an often dazzling movie that sees QT back on exhilarating form.
Dominion Post
pressIn the first and the last 10 minutes there are glimpses of what Inglourious Basterds had the potential to be: It just makes the two hours in between even more of a disappointment.
Flicks, Andreas Heinemann
flicksVintage Tarantino returns to the big screen and he’s brought all his trademark moves with him. His only standard technique conspicuous by its absence is a time-shifting narrative but he compensates with liberal doses of spectacularly sensationalized violence and joyously amoral humour.
Variety
pressA violent fairy tale, an increasingly entertaining fantasia in which the history of World War II is wildly reimagined so that the cinema can play the decisive role in destroying the Third Reich.
Total Film
press“This ain’t your daddy’s WW2 flick,” reckons Tarantino. Too right: this exploitation epic is a unique beast that molests history, wrong-foots expectations and royally entertains. The movies’ coolest Basterd is back on his game.
New Zealand Herald
pressQT lets slip the reservoir dogs of war and delivers his best flick in some time.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe film is by no means terrible -- its two hours and 32 minutes running time races by -- but those things we think of as being Tarantino-esque, the long stretches of wickedly funny dialogue, the humor in the violence and outsized characters strutting across the screen, are largely missing.
Empire Magazine
pressWith a confidence typical of its director, the last line of Inglourious Basterds is, "This might just be my masterpiece." While that may not be true, this is an often dazzling movie that sees QT back on exhilarating form.
Dominion Post
pressIn the first and the last 10 minutes there are glimpses of what Inglourious Basterds had the potential to be: It just makes the two hours in between even more of a disappointment.
Tarantino's war masterpiece.
I have no shame in saying that this is one of my favorite films of all time. No other film has kept me captivated on the edge of witty dialogue for that long, nor have I been entranced with such mesmerizing performances and carefully executed camera work. This satire speaks to you, makes you laugh, whimper, smile sadistically with joy or just be plain...
Spaghetti WW2
4 stars? Only because it's by the same director as PULP FICTION. That said - this is a wonderfully skewered take on the WW2 movie genre, seen through a Sergio Leone lens. If you've seen Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, then BASTERDS is a glorious homage. Don't expect a realistic historical document - it's a movie! Let down only by an overlong scene...
Gets better everytime
Now, Ive been to see this movie four times now. It just gets better with every viewing. Im at the point where I don't think I even need the sub-titles anymore. The acting of course is great, from Waltz in particular, but also I think a heartfelt and also a breakthrough performance from Melanie Laurent. I wouldnt be shocked if her name appears with waltz...
Putting Out Fire With Gasoline
Erroneously portrayed by its trailer as simply an excessively violent and relatively mindless World War Two parody chronicling the fictional exploits of American Lieutenant Aldo Raine and his rag tag bunch of soldiers, at its heart, Inglourious Basterds is a tragic tale of revenge portrayed through the character of Shosanna Dreyfus, a young French Jew who...
Nazi's talk about movies.
As per normal the movie is a comic book narrative made real, the violence present is brief and sudden and punctuates the dialogue which is just great. I expected it to be a bad movie and it was just great. Nothing is what you would expect from normal narrative convention in movies, if its self indulgent then good for tarantino.
finally
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