Sunday, April 11, 2010

Inglourious Basterds (2009, U.S.)

What a bizarre film. A French Jewish girl whose family was murdered by Nazis grows up to own a theater where a group of the highest echelon of Nazis is going to the premier of a propaganda film. Meanwhile, a group of Jewish American soldiers is running around sniping Nazi officers. There's also a German actress spying for the Allies. All of these people bump together in a giant plot to assassinate the Nazi high command.

I guess the point here was to have an alternate history, and it was almost believable. However, I have never seen so much over-acting in my life. Again, this is probably what they were going for, but it was just hard to take these people seriously when they were caricatures of characters.

On the bright side, there was not an overwhelming, nauseating amount of violence, which you would expect from Tarantino.

Still, the best I can say for it was that it was okay.

Rating: 3.0

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