Inglourious Basterds Details

looking good

this looks like a very good film and i can see it doing very well. it is a war film and its well worthe watching the traler it is shaping up to be better than saving privat ryan(worth watching).

[Highly rated reviewer]

Most Unglourious

Saw this at the cinema and was mighty disappointed. Have liked most of Tarantino's previous offerings and was interested to see his most recent but ended up wishing I hadn't bothered.

The film starts with the Nazi's interrogating a farmer reference hiding Jews (which begins one storyline of a woman owning a cinema and fraternising with the Nazi's), with the Basterds running alongside within their own storyline (generally running amok and making any Nazi that comes face to face with them regret it instantly), both of which do tie up neatly at the end. Unfortunately the overly long middle was kind of mind numbing.

There didn't seem to be any trademark Tarantino snappy dialogue, although I'm guessing the era it was set in wouldn't really support it the same way Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs does. The characters were pretty bland, I think this was probably because there were quite a few that they were all a bit diluted. I didn't really care what happened to any of them, and if something did then you didn't miss them as they didn't bring anything to the film anyway! Out of the Basterds there are only two or three I can remember and I only saw this yesterday!

Another problem for me was the running time. This did not need to be so long. I don't know what it is with his recent projects he seems to be unable to edit anything! This wasn't some epic picture full of great scenery shots and a story to get you thinking, it just made it unbearable. I sincerely think if this was even half an hour less in time I would have liked it better.

I realise Tarantino die hards are going to praise this film til the cows come home but for me this is his worst outing yet and two and half hours wasted!