Inglourious Basterds Movie Review

The film is a fantastical, violent spin-off of World War II and not your typical war film. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds plows into a long-bubbling revenge plot with adaptations of countless genre traditions, but only completely hits upon its tonal balance about midway through then just speeds off.

In fact, the film is surprising, screwy, bracing, daring and too clever for its own good. The motion picture is an entirely unique piece. There are many violent scenes and Brad Pitt as an Inglourious Basterd assures strong marketable prospects, especially to the global audience.

Movie viewers might get confused with the film as it is divided into five parts or chapters, if you want to call it. While World War II has maybe inspired as much invention as any other sole theme in film history, the movie is just one of those to have that distorted history to a certain degree.

The film revolves around an alternate history of the Second World War in which the complete set of Nazi German leadership features Hitler, Bormann, Goering, and Goebbels all attend a big screen premiere in Paris reveling in the accomplishments of a German sniper who had managed to kill 250 American soldiers in Italy. The film’s time frame is set in early June 1944.

Tarantino carefully illustrates the story from the very beginning. And then he fine-tunes it until the very end resulting in scenes that are in the grand tradition of World War II storyline. Believe it or not, the scenes are actually mostly shot at Babelsberg Studio outside Berlin.