Inglorious Basterds tells the story of an American army unit made up of Jewish soldiers who are sent behind enemy lines to bring vengeance upon the Nazis. They are sworn to kill all Nazis they meet.
Wrapped up in all of this is the story of Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) who is allowed to escape by the evil SS Colonel Landa (Christoph Waltz). She ends up running a cinema under an assumed name and plots to kill the entire German high command.
Brad Pitt plays the leader of the unit Lieutenant Aldo Raine and has the oddest American accent I’ve heard for a while. I don’t know how genuine it is, but it didn’t sound right…
Waltz does an excellent job playing Colonel Landa, moving from reasonable officer to extreme violence in a moment.
The film is very good in parts, but it suffers from being too long. There are long sequences where not a lot happens. The dialogue is to Tarantino’s usual high standard, there is just too much of it in places. The music in the film is very good though as you would expect.
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