After enjoying watching True Romance and Kill Bill, both by Quentin Tarintino... I was looking forward to watching his latest film, Inglorious Basterds. After reading its slightly mixed reviews, I was pleasantly surprised when I came out of the cinema, having really enjoyed the tense and quite dark witty humour contained within the story.
The main story-line is focused on two seperate attempts to kill Hitler and The Third Reich. A group of Nazi-hunting Americans, 'The Basterds" are on a mission in france to kill the Nazi's during the Second World War. Running alongside this, a young woman named Shosanna Dreyfus owns and runs a cinema, left to her by her late relatives. Three years prior she escaped and was the only survivor of her family left from a raid run by Landa, a member of the Third Reich and plans her revenge when the Premier of Landa's film is going to be held in her theatre, where Hitler and his closest advisors will be in attendance.
Christopher Waltz plays an incredibly evil Hans Landa, whose performance was convincing and blood curdling. His intelligence, power and evil combined with Waltz's acting, made a frightening and memorable role. From watching the trailer, i was prepared to be slightly unimpressed by Brad Pitts performance and thought he might come across to over the top and cheesy... but after I was pleasantly relieved that he gave Lt. Aldo Raine a humorous, compassionate role, which was the main hero of the film.
Almost all of what happens would have been impossible, but is very entertaining and has an alternative ending, which everyone would have preferred for the Nazi's. Although most was watched through the gaps between my fingers, if you can handle seeing a lot of blood and guts, for example the many scalps which were ripped from the heads of the soldiers, i would recommend watching it!!
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