Inglourious
Basterds
R
Quentin Tarantino's log awaited
reinvention of the 'Dirty Dozen' remake, 'Inglourous Bastards', from Italy, is
sometimes brilliant eye candy with a flair for gross outs. Set during World War
II, where the similarities to the other two films kind of appear, a ragged band
of Jewish mercenaries (unlike the convicts from the Italian one), are not
ordered to stop a German train, but rather have no directives, just to kill and
scalp every Nazi they can find. Tarantino so loves using old movie clichés and
mentioning them (obscure German ones even) that it bogs down the movie though,
and there isn't nearly enough carnage. Brad Pitt is hilarious as the leader of
the 'Basterds' who evidently can't 'spell too good', The rest are just there to
massacre Nazis. The plot concerns a Nazi 'Jew' hunter who makes a deal with a
strange movie house owner to hold a premiere for a sniper film praising a hero
in their ranks. Story reinvents the ending of the war also. If it weren't for
so many long breaks where two or more people discuss movies and drinking games
it would be a brilliant war version of a cowboy picture. 'Ebert goes to meet
Kevin Bacon while watching Nazi movies where someone scalps them six degrees
from Paris'.Review by Adam Browne
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