STARRING: Brad Pitt (Ocean’s 11-13, Fight Club); Christoph Waltz (German films); Eli Roth (director of Hostels); Melanie Laurent (French films); Diane Kruger (National Treasures, Troy)DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs)
WRITER: Quentin Tarantino (see above)
PLOT: A fantasy revenge film about the a group of Jewish American soldiers brutally killing Nazis in occupied France.
FIVE OBSERVATIONS
4 After the bloodbath that was Kill Bill, I expected a lot more bloodshed in Inglorious Basterds. Not so. Sure there are some scalpings and some brutal scenes here and there but most of the film is conversational dialogue. Subtitled no less. But these conversation are so intense, my heart was beating pretty rapidly throughout film.
4 A lot of the tension is brought to us by Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa, the “Jew Hunter”. He takes his time interrogating people, so much so, that you start questioning if he knows more than he’s letting on or not. This guy is getting an Oscar nomination. Hands down. Stellar performance.
4 Tarantino does a wonderful job blending genres in his surprisingly linear script. It's a war film with action and severe consequences. It's a film noir with the perfect femme fatales. It's a spy thrillers with the perfect amount of suspense and intrigue. And the dialogue is so incredibly rich. I found it odd, however, that some of the French words spoken were then subtitled in French as well. Maybe it was meaningful.
4 Like many Tarantino films, the score is great. The soundtrack, however, was not as memorable. The David Bowie song is fine and all but not as resonant as past Tarantino song choices. Little disappointed, but not too much.
4 I was surprised to see a lot of elderly people in the audience. Maybe because it was a matinee. I thought old people would be adverse to Tarantino fare. Maybe it’s because of the war genre, maybe they were Jewish. I wonder what they thought of the picture.
RECOMMENDATION
See it in the theatre
(You’ll be on the edge of your seat)
COMING SOON
Taking Woodstock, Cold Souls or Paper Hearts
(if I can find them)
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