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Inglourious Basterds [DVD] [2009]

Inglourious Basterds [DVD] [2009]Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mike Myers
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Category: DVD

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars reviews
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Format: PAL
Languages: English (Subtitled), Arabic (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 147 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6

EAN: 5050582713374
ASIN: B001N2MZSY

Release Date: December 7, 2009
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Although Quentin Tarantino has cherished Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 "macaroni" war flick The Inglorious Bastards for most of his film-geek life, his own Inglourious Basterds is no remake. Instead, as hinted by the Tarantino-esque misspelling, this is a lunatic fantasia of WWII, a brazen re-imagining of both history and the behind-enemy-lines war film subgenre. There's a Dirty Not-Quite-Dozen of mostly Jewish commandos, led by a Tennessee good ol' boy named Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) who reckons each warrior owes him one hundred Nazi scalps--and he means that literally. Even as Raine's band strikes terror into the Nazi occupiers of France, a diabolically smart and self-assured German officer named Landa (Christoph Waltz) is busy validating his own legend as "The Jew Hunter." Along the way, he wipes out the rural family of a grave young girl (Melanie Laurent) who will reappear years later in Paris, dreaming of vengeance on an epic scale.

Now, this isn't one more big-screen comic book. As the masterly opening sequence reaffirms, Tarantino is a true filmmaker, with a deep respect for the integrity of screen space and the tension that can accumulate in contemplating two men seated at a table having a polite conversation. IB reunites QT with cinematographer Robert Richardson (who shot Kill Bill), and the colors and textures they serve up can be riveting, from the eerie red-hot glow of a tabletop in Adolf Hitler's den, to the creamy swirl of a Parisian pastry in which Landa parks his cigarette. The action has been divided, Pulp Fiction-like, into five chapters, each featuring at least one spellbinding set-piece. It's testimony to the integrity we mentioned that Tarantino can lock in the ferocious suspense of a scene for minutes on end, then explode the situation almost faster than the eye and ear can register, and then take the rest of the sequence to a new, wholly unanticipated level within seconds.

Again, be warned: This is not your "Greatest Generation," Saving Private Ryan WWII. The sadism of Raine and his boys can be as unsavory as the Nazi variety; Tarantino's latest cinematic protégé, Eli (director of Hostel) Roth, is aptly cast as a self-styled "golem" fond of pulping Nazis with a baseball bat. But get past that, and the sometimes disconcerting shifts to another location and another set of characters, and the movie should gather you up like a growing floodtide. Tarantino told the Cannes Film Festival audience that he wanted to show "Adolf Hitler defeated by cinema." Cinema wins. --Richard T. Jameson



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3 out of 5 stars A Mixed Bag   February 8, 2010
Milne (Scotland)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful

Where do you start with this peculiar film?
It is a mess but it includes some magnificent moments of sheer virtuousity. The acting is generally highly accomplished with the exception of Brad Pitt who appears painfully constipated throughout. His part requires minimal effort and it seems that that was all Pitt was prepared to make. Having said that it may be Tarantino's directing to blame for Pitt's wooden approach.
On the other hand Christoph Waltz is simply incredible. His performance is a tour de force with a skilfully delivered balance achieved between palpable menace and grotesque comedy. Waltz is a significant find; a towering talent whose skills in this film deserve recognition with an Oscar. It is worth watching just for his performance alone. The opening scene is deftly done and appears to promise an intelligent adult film that Hollywood did so well in the late sixties and early seventies but the film from there onward fluctuates between farce and magnificence.
There is an excellently choreographed set-piece in a Parisian cellar bar that is reminiscent of the best of Sergio Leone and much of the film is a homage to the classic Spaghetti Westerns of the sixties as well as Sam Pekinpah. Even the musical score brings to mind those great Westerns. However, too much of the film is downright infantile and ridiculous with little sense of direction.

Worth watching once but only once. Borrow.


4 out of 5 stars Inglourious Basterds   March 26, 2010
Spider Monkey (UK)
`Inglourious Basterds' is a typical Tarantino film and if you are a fan of his films then this will right up your street. This is set in WW2 and follows a group of American commandos who are behind enemy lines and who terrorize nazi soldiers to lower morale. It also features a Jewish cinema owner who plans to enact her own form of revenge; both stories weave their way separately through the film and join up at the end. This is shot in a series of vignettes (very much in the pulp fiction style) and each little episode provides an extra element to the overall story. Some of the dialogue and behaviour of the Basterds will make you laugh, that is until the retribution begins and then you get the usual Tarantino ultra violence that will make you wince as you watch. The Basterds behaviour is as deplorable as the nazis at times, but their delivery and flair raise a wry smile throughout. There is an excellent cast, with many decent actors playing small roles as well as main characters and whilst the direction is stylised it is easily as good as previous films by Tarantino. The ending is ludicrous but is shot with tongue firmly in cheek and although complete fantasy, it is the ending you would want to make this a satisfying film experience. It's not real, but it is good cinema. This was better than I expected and is worth a watch at some point, just note that it is an 18 certificate for a reason.


3 out of 5 stars Inglorious Basterds - A sporadically enjoyable Tarantino, but not his best   January 10, 2010
Red on Black (Cardiff)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful

I have read somewhere that Tarantino thinks this may be his masterpiece. He must be suffering from memory loss. Any Director that sets the bar so high with films like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction will struggle to match their brilliance. I thought the "Kill Bill" Series showed that he was coming back into form as the virtuoso director unfortunately Inglorious Basterds is a bit of a miss step albeit it has its moments.

It's Tarantino so certain parts are excellent and the dialogue scenes are especially strong. Brad Pitt however is neither fish not fowl as Lieutenant Aldo Raine the "Apache" leader of the Jewish gang of brutalised soldiers "the basterds" and the concept of a spaghetti-western-inspired war film works but never quite convinces.

When the film concluded I felt very flat about it. I have no problems with Tarantino re writing the ending of the Second World War. Similarly I thought Christoph Waltz's part as the "Jew Hunter" stole every scene in the film with his character Hans Landa deeply sinister yet surprisingly charming. This is the sign of true monster. The problem is that the "gang" themselves are forgettable other than for the grizzly "torture" scenes. The comedy is bit Laurel and Hardy, (the Italian accents scene is mildly funny) and it's a film full of film references and knowing cinematic pastiche which will be lost on many who may just see the violence.

It also proves that the Germans must have a sense of humour since the portrayal of every German here is unflinchingly unsympathetic and on occasions borders on racism, and the yet the German government allegedly part financed it! Tarantino even "good in parts" is a much better prospect than most mainstream Hollywood directors and IBs has its moments but as for his best film or a thrilling return to form, "absolut keinen weg" as they say in Baveria.


4 out of 5 stars Much better than I imagined!!   February 21, 2010
Bunty (Kent England)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I bought this film for my husband as he likes Tarantino films and sat down with him to watch, expecting not to like as not good with a lot of violence and blood! I was pleasantly surprised with this film though as it had a good storyline, brilliant acting and as far as the blood and violence was concerned, not too bad!!!! I will certainly be recommending it to friends and the dvd is already doing the rounds amongst family & friends. Give it a go as it is a good watch and I am a girl who doesnt normally like bloody violent war films!!!!


3 out of 5 stars Jewish Dirty Dozen do Allo Allo Spaghetti Western version of WW2 !   February 1, 2010
Mr. R. Coleman (Marlow, UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

I know it is only a movie and a piece of pure fiction but I did have the following issues with the movie. 1st Once again Hollywood is re-writing the history of the universe - this time by killing off the entire German high-command and Hitler himself and ending World War II an entire year earlier than in the history books dictate ! Oddly though, I think it was a good plot for the movie, BUT, a far, far better ending for the film would have been that when the evil `Jew Hunter' Landa reached the axis lines Raine actually finds out that all the main Nazi characters assassinated were all doubles, which would then have meant Landa did it all for nothing and could have been killed on the spot. This would have worked better for me anyhow ! 2nd It appeared to me that on a number of occasions that in this movie that if were not either Jewish or American you were either going to die, or be made to look an idiot - The British commander gives the Americans away, all the French die and though the film sets out to scalp as many Nazi's as possible it fails to show that there were actually some people fighting for Germany that were good people - if a little confused by their own idealism (I know I worked with some many years ago who were forced to join or be shot !!). 3rd The movie seems to spend a great deal of time setting up situations that go nowhere - for instance, Shosanna escapes from Landa at the beginning of the movie and though she meets him later, nothing is made of her hatred of him or her true identity revealed to him, which kind of begs the point why show it in the first place !

Anyhow, when all is said and done I have to say that I enjoy a Tarantino movie now and again, but whereas many reviewers seem to be saying that Inglourious Basterds is a Tarantino masterpiece, I `personally' have to say that the watching of this movie did not match my anticipation of actually watching it ! Certainly many of the fans of Tarantino who are going to expect that the movie is going to live up to the action sequences that appear on the trailers are going to be sadly disappointed, for it is much more of a `talkie' film than an action film. I would describe it more as a WW2 movie that is filmed in the way that the talking sequences were done on old Spaghetti western movies, with a bit of barbarism thrown in, with Pitt seemingly trying his best to steal a terrible accent from old 70's dirty dozen movies !

I have many Tarantino movies on DVD, etc, but I am not going to buy this one. I'll watch it again sometime to see if I missed anything, but to me I feel that about an hour was cut from the movie and is being stored for a later longer release on some new format in about 10 years or so - a movie that will show alternative endings and relationships that were actually filmed but not edited in - or edited out should I say.

Highlights for me were Christolph Waltz's portrayal of Landa, and Schweiger as Stiglitz who I really would have like to have seen utilised in the movie far more than he was - his life before the Basterds rescued him seemed far more interesting before he joined them !!!

So, for me it is worth a watch, but nothing more - Please note this is my own opinion only. So, 3 out of 5. (would give it 7 of 10 but can't !!)


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