Once Upon a time in Nazi occupied France the German's were flooding the land, destroying everything and anyone who got in there path they plunder, pillaged, and ransacked a few villages while merrily laughing all the while. The Americans were furious and quite intuitive on how to send the German is a message. Therefore, they gathered up a team of rag tag Jewish-American soldiers and sent them behind enemy lines to cause the German's some mayhem. They came, they saw, they killed they scalped and sent the cold shiver up the German's spine's the Fuhrer was furious, the American's were laughing at his angry despair, through out the Third Reich they sent The German's a message that the were here to stay, to kill old Adolph and his heads of state. To bring down the German oppression and show them the ferocity of there strength and there drive and be know as throughout the German as "Inglourious Basterds".
Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds” is audacious, rude and outrageously historically incorrect it's one of those great Tarantino films that just grabs you and throws you head first into a wacky and insane world of violence, brutality and allot of Nazi slurs. I liked this film allot more than I thought I would seeing as I am not a fan of Tarantino's at all, but there was something about this film that was just so good I really can't place it. I don't know if it was the outrageous liberties taken with history, the black humor that seemed to float around in almost every frame with Aldo(Brad Pitt) and his men, maybe it was Christoph Waltz's dry sadistic humor and his ability to screw up the most simple of American slang. I do not know but “Inglourious Basterds" is one of those films that you just can't hate. It works on every level as a violent revenge film, a black comedy, a war movie and in some strange way a character study. "Inglourious Basterds” is Quentin Tarantino at his most ruthless and unrestrained.
Brad Pitt gives one of his best and most outrageous performances as the thickly accented, Nazi killing Lt. Aldo Raines, Pitt’s performance is solely based on his ferocity and shear star power. In most films Pitt is a miscast and his performance is very distant and withdrawn, here he is perfectly cast and delivers a fine performance under the direction of Quentin Tarantino. Christoph Waltz is the man that sneaks up on you in this film you does not expect such a strong performance from him and yet that is what you get and then some. Waltz looks like a choirboy but acts like a schizophrenic maniac, he never ceases to amaze and out of the entire cast he delivers the most daring and most wigged out performance. The rest of the cast including Mélanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Til Schweiger, and Diane Kruger are all phenomenal and deliver some of the best performances I have seen in a long time from a supporting cast.
"Inglourious Basterds" is one of those films that you may like more while your watching it than after and then again you may actually like it even like it more after it's over, it's just that good. Quentin Tarantino has created his masterpiece a film so audacious, crude and bold that it just leaps out at you at every turn and gives you a rip roaring, explosive adventure that you will not soon forget.
