“Inglourious Basterds” Movie Review

“Inglourious Basterds” (my 0-10 rating: 9)
Genre: War-adventure-drama (in mostly subtitled German and French but some English)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Martin Wuttke, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers, Cloris Leachman, Samuel L. Jackson.
Time: 2 hrs., 33 min.
Rating: R (strong graphic violence, vulgarity and brief sexuality)
This is Quentin Tarantino-plus, then plus again, and boiled over.
He’s finally come of age, his “Inglourious Basterds” being a matured grasp of some of the most dramatic of modern devices, strategies and tactics of the cinematic arts. Its European feel in some parts, blessed with a full Hollywood budget and greatly sophisticated Tarantino technique and style expand rapidly and organically, indeed inexorably, into a treatment of spellbinding suspense at many levels.
His choice of allowing each character to speak in his and her own language, thus preserving the special emphases and cultural feel, was superb.
This is World War II fairy tale stuff, of course. Nothing of the plot’s events regarding the plot to kill the Nazi top figures ever happened.
This is also Tarantino going through his scalping period. The compulsive graphic, detailed depictions of men being scalped are quite startling, surely a great satisfaction for ardent Tarantino fans who love his worship of torture and gore killing.









