The endless twists and turns coupled with Tarantino's trademark black comedy help take the edge off the violence a little.
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08/21/09
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Inglourious Basterds (2009)
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Reviews Counted:256
Fresh:227
Rotten:29
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: A classic Tarantino genre-blending thrill ride, Inglourious Basterds is violent, unrestrained, and thoroughly entertaining,
Theatrical Release:Aug 21, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $120,523,073
Synopsis: Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz).... [More]
Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth
Director: Quentin Tarantino
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Reviews for Inglourious Basterds
QT is rediscovering his form: Basterds is a tense, punchy and darkly funny film.
08/21/09
Tarantino swaps fact for pulp fiction; Quentin Tarantino has made a glorious, silly, blood-spattered return.
05/20/09
'I've had no issues in working with the Weinsteins. They're ma boyz!,' Tarantino exclaimed in our Chicago interview both with anticipated media training but also with genuine indebtedness to the brotherly duo. 'They're coming back in a big way.'
08/20/09
Nobody but Tarantino could have made Inglourious Basterds and, in a homogenising culture such as Hollywood, that's worth celebrating.
08/21/09
Landa is a man you will love to hate. His performance is a credible candidate for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. He is the best thing in this patchy, overlong but ridiculously enjoyable return to form for the bad boy of American cinema.
08/24/09
Even if you wish Tarantino would calm down a bit and rely more on his considerable skills at straightforward storytelling, this World War II saga is undeniably suspenseful, violent and entertaining.
08/18/09
Basterds isn't a deep film -- honestly, what Tarantino flick is? -- but it has moments as sharp as a bayonet and as perverse as war itself.
08/11/09
Be prepared for unsettling shifts in pace and tone, be prepared to be shocked and amused, to laugh and guffaw and to be always surprised in this comic fantasy which is cheeky enough to reinvent history and has audiences clapping as it does so
08/17/09
As it progresses, it increasingly takes its cues from Ernst Lubitsch's great Nazi farce To Be or Not to Be, except eventually even wackier and less realistic.
09/20/09
If the accomplishment of this first scene were upheld throughout then we might have a masterpiece on our hands. Alas, it is uneven as well as unpredictable.
08/21/09
If you love Quentin, get ready for a hell of a ride!
08/29/09
Sensationally entertaining, relentlessly suspenseful and thrilling with a terrific ensemble cast and wickedly funny and witty dialogue. Tarantino fans rejoice!
08/21/09
Superbly acted and well constructed, each scene is paced to a chaotic climatic frenzy.
08/17/09
This is a seriously provocative film.
08/17/09
You absolutely have to see this film if only for Waltz' performance as Landa -- it's the most inspired, carefully nuanced and perfectly pitched performance of the year.
08/22/09
Christoph Waltz delivers one of the most brilliant portrayals of a villain I've seen since Anthony Hopkins transformed himself into Hannibal Lecter.
08/23/09
an insane destruction of the war film
08/20/09
Tarantino crams enough movie-loving passion into the film to keep you not just entertained but occasionally riveted. Above all else, it's a really enjoyable ride.
08/19/09
"Basterds" is very audacious with comic book-like characters and dialogue, a B-movie sensibility and a serial-like disdain for logic.
08/25/09
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