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quite a few stellar performances to be found in this movie. I have to
admit that before I go into a tirade. So we’ll start at the best part of
the whole
movie, the actor portraying Hans Landa: Christoph Waltz.
A German actor who does splendid work in this movie, he deserves a
nomination as best actor. He’s the ultimate actor in this movie and
seems to act his way around the whole rest of the cast.
He’s superb. Even when all he
does is talk, he still kicks ass. He doesn’t do much besides
just literally acting like a menace and treating the rest of
the cast like they are beneath him.
And they are.
Beyond him, you’ve got Brad Pitt as Aldo Raine and Eli Roth
as Donny Donowitz and Til Schweiger as Hugo Stiglitz. They
are the best actors in the whole movie besides Christoph
Waltz and they just completely own this movie. They are the
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Hugo gets his own little recap spot to show
you how much of a badass he is and you’re left wanting more.
Brad Pitt is a goofball, which is him at his best. And Eli Roth gets to
play the demon of the gang, and he fits in there well.
With guest performances by Sam Jackson, Harvey Keitel, and Mike Myers,
the movie has something for just about everyone.
But that’s where it all goes so horribly wrong. This is a movie
called Inglorious Basterds, and they’re barely in the movie. Had it
been called Hans Landa, I would have nothing to complain about.
But it wasn’t.
It was called Inglorious Basterds with the promise that this was a
World War II movie about a group similar to the Dirty Dozen, and
instead, I’d rather be watching the original Inglorious Bastards.
This is not the best movie of the year. Had I not seen District 9 or
Moon or Hurt Locker, this could possibly be up there. But it suffers
a lot.
It suffers from all of its Tarantino-isms. There is WAY too much
talking, not enough scalping, and not enough Basterds.
The movie is too much like the slow sections of Death Proof when it
needed to be a war movie.
This is most certainly not the best movie of the year. This is a good
Tarantino movie. This is not his best, not even close. That honor goes
to Jackie Brown by far. If you want to watch a war movie about talking,
this is your movie. If you want to watch a war movie with war in it,
stay far away from this film.
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