Assassinating Hitler was not a matter of joke

Movie – Inglorious Basterds

Director – Quentin Tarantino

Star cast - Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth and Others

Historical inaccuracies, glaring loopholes and terribly slow pace in short this is all the cult master Quentin Tarantino’s latest war film, Inglorious Basterds is about. It was so ridiculous to see Tarantino taking his audience for granted like he was fooling everyone saying who cares about the story, look at my style of movie making. Just replace those characters in Pulp Fiction with Nazi costumes and German accent, end of the day you come out with a cheap imitation like Inglorious Basterds. Pulp Fiction had cheesy and quirky dialogues and classic moments but Inglorious Basterds has nothing to offer. Who has a single bit of patience to see 30-40 minutes of descent and polite conversations leading to only 10-15 seconds of Tarantino’s Mexican stand off gun firing conclusions? With 152 minutes of running time you get only 30 minutes of hard core bizarrely entertaining moments. In fact after seeing this I thoroughly believe that Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie was a much more deserving winner in terms of real time statistics and top notch performances...

The story begins with Nazi has occupied France; young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa hiding in Perrier LaPadite shelter. She narrowly escapes with her life, and plans her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller shows interest in her. Fredrick plots a magnanimous movie premiere at the theater Shosanna owns. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the Basterds progress and the Shosanna’s plans are set in motion, their paths cross leading to a blood shed premiere ambushing Hitler and gunning him down to death.

Inglorious Basterds is all about Christopher Waltz who gives a stand out performance. He is only person who holds you tight from the beginning with brilliant dialogue delivery and of course the simplicity which acts as his best weapon in this one. The way he breaks down his opponents in lengthy conversations is mind blowing and speechless. In three chapters he was thoroughly dominant and entertaining, first being that with Denis Menochet, then with Melanie Laurent and finally with Diane Kruger every one of them is powerfully portrayed with thrilling maturity.    

There was injustice in the hands of Brad Pitt. Such a great performance but zero screen timing and standing like dum most of the time when others keep interacting. As a matter of fact you can see him for only 30-40 minutes doing something productive in the entire plot. Wish I could see more from him but Tarantino once again ruins all the entertainment. Eli Roth, Melanie Laurent and Til Schweiger are equally good but again the same disappointment i.e. no screen timing.  Coming up with Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, etc as Basterds is immensely irrelevant in the teaser posters as they are barely noticeable in the movie.

The very moment I saw Quentin Tarantino jumping, hopping and dancing around with the co-stars in the red carpet of Cannes film festival it was quite evident and suspicious that Inglorious Basterds might be zero in content because of his big mouth publicity. But still I was holding my patience for this highly anticipated movie of the year and finally landed into a severely disappointing impact. How could one land up killing the Fuhrer with just a gun trespassing inside killing two guards with a gun and knife. If one stands up to make such an epic proportion thriller then they should come up with thousands of research materials relating to facts about Hitler’s countless assassination attempts and his miraculous escapes. Of course you get to see the good old Tarantino’s weirdest massacre and murdering techniques but what was the point behind dragging and messing around the plot for so long. The plus points where the style, subsequent chapter conclusions, the music and the climax.  

Rating - 6/10

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Not everyone likes Qunetin style of movies
written by Unknown, October 13, 2009

Not everyone likes Qunetin style of movies, his approach and vision is different from others and he have a huge fan base following for that and who believes his style of movie making esp the dialogues, sequence, characters.

There's no point in showing the assassination in similar to what others have shown.

It is this USP of Quentin makes his movies sale like hot cakes.

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