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:39
Fresh:29
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.9/10
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 - 18 (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 CriticIt's a lurid, wide-screen fantasy of how things might have gone if Sergio Leone or Sam Fuller had called the shots.
08/23/09
Top CriticClocking in at 2 hours and 32 minutes, it is unforgivably leisurely, almost glacial, a film that loses its way in the thickets of alternative history and manages to be violent without the start-to-finish energy that violence on screen usually guarantees.
08/21/09
Top CriticAll the trademark Tarantino flourishes are here -- the joyous splaying of gore; the self-referential dialogue; the artful artificiality and the juxtaposition of humor and violence -- but they don't add up to much.
08/21/09
Top CriticSimply another testament to his movie love. The problem is that by making the star attraction of his latest film a most delightful Nazi, one whose smooth talk is as lovingly presented as his murderous violence, Mr. Tarantino has polluted that love.
08/21/09
Top CriticFor all its visual bravura and occasional bursts of antic inspiration, it feels trivial, the work of a kid who can't stop grabbing his favorite shiny plaything.
08/21/09
Top CriticThe final impression of the movie — that it’s crass, juvenile and profoundly distasteful — overrides its more enjoyable moments.
08/21/09
Top CriticI think it's Tarantino's best film since Jackie Brown. It's up there, in fact, with his best ever.
08/21/09
Top CriticThe outcome is gory and glorious.
08/20/09
Top CriticQuentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is a big, bold, audacious war movie that will annoy some, startle others and demonstrate once again that he’s the real thing, a director of quixotic delights.
08/20/09
Top CriticInglourious Basterds is not boring, but it’s ridiculous and appallingly insensitive—a Louisville Slugger applied to the head of anyone who has ever taken the Nazis, the war, or the Resistance seriously.
08/17/09
Top CriticBy turns surprising, nutty, windy, audacious and a bit caught up in its own cleverness, the picture is a completely distinctive piece of American pop art with a strong Euro flavor that's new for the director.
05/20/09
Top CriticWith a confidence typical of its director, the last line of Inglourious Basterds is, “This might just be my masterpiece.” While that may not be true, this is an often dazzling movie that sees QT back on exhilarating form.
05/20/09
Top CriticIt fails as conventional war movie, as genre spoof, as trash and as pulp.
05/20/09
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