What really makes Inglourious Basterds stick out like a Royale with cheese...is its sheer playfulness. Tarantino does digress, as is his wont, but these are not the irritating indulgences they were in Kill Bill.
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08/21/09
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
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Reviews Counted:255
Fresh:225
Rotten:30
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: A classic Tarantino genre-blending thrill ride, Inglourious Basterds is violent, unrestrained, and thoroughly entertaining,
Australian Theatrical Release:
Aug 20, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $120,523,073
Synopsis: Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz).... [More]
Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Reviews for Inglourious Basterds
1 - 20 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticThe film is long, certainly, but it’s never dull; it’s violent, of course, but hey, World War II was a violent business and war movies were never like this before.
08/19/09
Top CriticThis rollicking epic harks back to typical wordy Tarantino fare, with the added explicit violence that’s to be expected from this cult director.
08/19/09
Top CriticA two and half hour film made up of only a handful of beautifully crafted scenes. Superbly exagerated characters in high intensity moments. This is classic Tarantino.
08/19/09
Top CriticBe prepared for unsettling shifts in pace and tone, be prepared to be shocked and amused, to laugh and guffaw and to be always surprised in this comic fantasy which is cheeky enough to reinvent history and has audiences clapping as it does so
08/17/09
Top CriticA bold, gory and glorious cinematic fest liberally doused with humour, satire and entertainment value
08/17/09
Top CriticA brilliant rebound with a wonderfully complex story, a great cast, and a score that's really up to par with Tarantino's standards...
12/18/09
Quentin Tarantino seems to be hanging on to a lost world of moviemaking. He may be nuts. But he's a nut who cares.
12/16/09
Tarantino's World War II epic is both bloody and talky.
12/14/09
Tarantino's visual style and flare for the fantasy make for an intriguing and colorful World War II drama.
12/12/09
Mr. Waltz's dynamic performance contrasts satirical and dramatic hues, effectively charismatic and repulsive at once.
12/06/09
Un divertido disparate sobre tema serio que es, en definitiva, una celebración y reivindicación del cine como espectáculo. Gran trabajo del austriaco Christoph Waltz en el papel de Hans Landa.
11/14/09
It's great in parts.
11/04/09
Simply Tarantino's best. A very intelligent script that combines war movie elements with some pointed observations about violence in movies and in society.
10/25/09
Năo importando a qual gęnero pertençam ou que história estejam contando, os filmes de Quentin Tarantino giram primordialmente em torno de duas coisas: o Cinema e o amor que o diretor sente por este.
10/09/09
Hitler is introduced in a cape like a comic-book villain, so moral relativism clearly isn't part of the plan. With its intentionally brash rewriting of history, Inglourious Basterds is what Quentin Tarantino's back-half of Grindhouse should've been.
09/22/09
As it progresses, it increasingly takes its cues from Ernst Lubitsch's great Nazi farce To Be or Not to Be, except eventually even wackier and less realistic.
09/20/09
Gutsy, pleasurable and very satisfying. Packaged together by the amazing Quentin Tarantino, this film will slap you in the face and say: "Damn good, what a way to end the summer!"
09/11/09
97% mature, solid, suspenseful, respectful, artistic, violent, sophisticated, tremulous, funny, surprising
09/10/09
Its biggest flaw, though, for those who care about such things, may be its moral attitude. That might seem a stodgy thing to bring up in the context of a Quentin Tarantino movie, but it takes such center stage that it needs to be examined.
09/10/09
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