Inglourious Basterds (DVD)

The wonderfully mis-spelled Inglourious Basterds is the latest film from love-him-or-loathe-him director Quentin Tarantino. As with all QT films, it's not exactly a traditional film and whether or not you like it will depend in whether you "get it". This is his war film and sees a band of American soldiers (the Basterds of the title) dropped into Nazi Germany with the express mission of killing as many Nazis as they can. Let's deal first with the criticisms of the film which have been heard from a vocal minority. They seem to fall into two main camps. First: those who claim the film is too violent. On that count, we find the Basterds guilty. It's ...  Read the complete review

Coming after the critical and popular flop that was Death Proof, and after going through a lot of controversy over the value of anything pulp-director Quentin Tarantino has done for several years now - whether his films are entertaining exercises in fandom fun, or simply empty and shallow collections of homages, references and clichés that are neither smart nor particularly inventive - Tarantino has now returned with his newest pulp action conglomeration, this time taking on the war genre of film as his point of departure. Inglourious Basterds (sic) is not a hugely complicated film by any large margin as it details the exploits of a team of paramilitaries out to ...  Read the complete review

Inglorious Basterds is the 2009 war drama (or should that be comedy?) from cult movie writer and director Quentin Tarantino. The film opens in Nazi-occupied France during the second world war, with a young Jewish girl (Shosanna Dreyfus) witnessing the murder of her family at the hands of an evil German Colonel, Hans Landa (played by Christoph Waltz). The girl is almost shot herself but manages to flee to Paris where she adopts a new identity and in later years becomes the proprietor of a Paris cinema. This career path provides her with an unlikely opportunity to gain revenge on the Nazis when a young German war hero Frederick Zoller takes a keen interest in her and ...  Read the complete review

Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France, a young Jewish girl narrowly escapes after the slaughter of her family. Years later she plans her revenge when a German war hero takes an interest in her. A movie about his heroic killings is scheduled to be premiered at her theatre and in attendance will be hundreds of Nazi soldiers and officials. When a group of Jewish-American soldiers, nicknamed the 'Basterds', hear about the premier, they plan to get their own revenge in the most brutal way possible. Because, after all, they're in the Nazi killing business and business is a-booming. ~ Cast ~ Lt. Aldo Raine - Brad Pitt Shosanna Dreyfus - Mélanie ...  Read the complete review

Inglorious Basterds is Tarantino's latest offering and some have argued his return to form. A loose remake (or just title borrowing may be more apt) of a little known movie from the 70's the film is about a group of US Nazi Killers led by Aldo Raine (Brad Bitt) whose sole objective is to head to Nazi occupied France and kill as many Nazi's as possible. The Basterds Hatch a glorious plan for a grand slaying unaware that a Jewish cinema owner Shoshanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) is planning the same. All the while the ruthless Col. Hans Landa (Christopher Waltz), nicknamed 'The Jew hunter', is on the prowl. I'll say no more as the plot is fairly convoluted and has many ...  Read the complete review