Rent Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Absolute Rubbish - Inglourious Basterds review by CP Customer

World War 2 was a matter of life and death to many people and not a bloody pantomime!

This film is an insult not only to the allied forces in Europe but also to many of the Germans.

Unfortunately, I would not be surprised should many credulous viewers actually believe this to be part of our history.

Incongruous bilge - Inglourious Basterds review by CP Customer

I can see the atraction for Brad to play his role but not Samuel L Jackson. This is the usual "Us Americans saved the world in WWII" crap, until the last few minutes (if you can be bothered to sit through it that long) and then it all goes wrong for them except they have a get out clause at the end where good old Uncle Sam makes @em pay in the end.

Its Resevoir Dogs and Kill Bill meet the Nazis and not in a good way.

Rather lacking from Tarantino. He is one of my favourite directors but this is poor.

Worst movie of the last 5 years - Inglourious Basterds review by PV

This is a dire movie, even by QT's plummeting standards. Silly, badly written (repetitive dialogue; dialogue that is clearly Tarantino's voice spoken by several characters, so not differentiation). Ridiculous rewriting of history (why?) for no purpose. Silly pantomime-ish hiss-boo portrayal of Nazis. Utterly absurd and deeply unenjoyable.

How this ever made money and got nominated for awards is beyond me. It is trash. No stars.

good war film - Inglourious Basterds review by CP Customer

a good action war film which starts of wiv jews getting hunted and ends wiv a single jew getting her own bak on the nasty nazis would reccommed watching to any body

Great Start Little Else - Inglourious Basterds review by CP Customer

Tarantino’s decline continues with Inglorious Basterds, a film that is in dire need of trimming, a decent script and a steady hand. What we have here veers between comedy, drama and a thriller, with the latter representing the strongest aspect of the movie. It’s greatest moment is the opening period where we are first introduced to Colonel Hans Landa, marvellously portrayed by Christoph Waltz who is the real star of Inglorious Basterds. After this highpoint the film descends into farce and mockery, never managing to scale such heights again. Tarantino continues to annoy and frustrate as while this is an improvement on Death Proof, his childish script antics have ruined what should have been a knockout war movie.

Daft And OTT War Spoof. - Inglourious Basterds review by GI

Here is the film where Quentin Tarantino became so self indulgent that it's easy to view this as self parody where Tarantino just makes a film that features all the nerdy over-the-top scenes he loves. On release I was very disappointed and considered this a fatuous dud but on revisiting it a few times it reveals its entertaining ridiculousness and the diamond in the rough of Christoph Waltz' award winning performance. Essentially this is a spoof, with an uncomfortable heady mix of Sergio Leone meets Mel Brooks and influenced by those Boy's Own American war films of the 50s and 60s and especially The Dirty Dozen (1967), a film that itself has panache but is ultimately nasty. Inglorious Basterds is definitely nasty, the violence is graphic and at times shockingly so and you have to allow Tarantino his rewriting of history moment (hence the "Once Upon A Time..." screen shot at the beginning) and of course he's been emboldened to do this again in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019). Once you forgive this and sit back you can enjoy the various humour and fun that the cast are surely having and it's a great cast too including Brad Pitt (not his best film or performance), Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Brühl, Mike Myers and even Rod Taylor has a weird cameo as Winston Churchill. The best though goes to Waltz, Mélanie Laurent and Denis Ménochet who are all excellent. So in short in occupied France during the Second World War a team of American soldiers parachute in with the mission to kill Germans and they carry off their scalps as trophies. Eventually they become part of a British mission to assassinate the German top brass at a cinema owned by a Jewish woman who is incognito and wants revenge for the murder of her family. But a notorious and devious SS officer is always on the lookout for treachery. The bloodshed is extreme, the climax jaw droppingly daft and yet you'll smile while watching. It's very Tarantino and yet his most cartoonish effort to date.

Very Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds review by JH

Tarantino has always been a bit of an indulgent filmmaker to me. Script full of lengthy scenes filled with at least one 'speech-ifying', righteous characters that sound all a bit similar; sumptuous visuals; classic score; lengthy running times and at least a touch of unnecessary violence.

This film isn't a new take on things. It does look good, and sound great too -- the man certainly knows the craft. Most of the dialogue-heavy 'someone's going to be found out' scenes are at least led by a delightfully bonkers Christoph Waltz,

An OK effort, 30mins too long and still manages a rather pointless (if loud) denouement.

He's done better, and worse.