| Inglourious Basterds [DVD] [2009] | ![Inglourious Basterds [DVD] [2009]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H4j-mls6L._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mike Myers
Studio: Universal Pictures UK
Category: DVD
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Rating:  210 reviews
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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 Flawed but fabulous entertainment June 24, 2010
S J Buck (Kent, UK)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For the first 20 minutes this is a 5 star movie. The opening chapter is a brilliantly conceived set piece which which sets a high standard that the majority of the rest of the film never matches. This scene and the rest of the movie features an amazing performance by Christoph Waltz as the SS Col Landa. Waltz rightly won the best supporting actor Oscar for his charismatic performance.
The film is a very fictionalised version of World War II. In classic Tarantino chapter style he tells the story of the basterds. They are a group of US Jews who hunt down and scalp Nazis.
Their quest leads them into an opportunity to kill many of the German high command all in one night. Brad Pitt leads the Basterds, and is perhaps the weakest link in the film. A very wooden performance, which led me to dislike his character and yet find Colonel Landa's character strangly endearing, which was very disconcerting....
And heres the crux of the matter. In places this IS classic Tarantino. The opening chapter, the bar scene and the lunch with Goerring are all nail bitingly tense and wonderfully written. However, a friend who saw the film with me pointed out that some will find the way the subject matter is treated in comic strip style completely inappropriate. Add to that the poor Brad Pitt performance, and the fact that the film is also too long by at least 15 mins and I could not give it 5 stars.
The bluray picture is excellent and the film IS great entertainment, A substantial improvement from the really quite bad Deathproof, but its no Pulp Fiction or Jackie Brown.
Inglourious Basterds March 26, 2010
Spider Monkey (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
`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.
 Inglorious Basterds - A sporadically enjoyable Tarantino, but not his best January 10, 2010
Red on Black (Cardiff)
5 out of 6 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.
Vying For The Accolade May 21, 2010
Mr. M. A. Reed (Somewhere, GB)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is Tarantino's masterpiece.
At last. When, after the one-note "Death Proof", Quintin Tarantino finally unleashed his long touted World War II Epic, I hoped that "Inglorious Basterds" would be a stunning return to form. A clever, mature, fun World War II movie that reinvented the long dormant and po-faced genre.
I'm so used to watching tired, serious, hectoring aspirant classics about the war and Hitler that now I am utterly bored of yet another worthy dirge about The Jews and Adolf. The war could be portrayed as thrilling derring do and the people fighting it real people, not just bland, humourless ciphers focused, above and beyond all things, on one thing only, The Mission. Inglorious is not a Men On A Mission movie. But these men do have a mission, and they are pursuing it.
Thankfully, Tarantino has eschewed the genre conventions of the pious, po-faced war movie, and given a historically inaccurate, but fabulous escapade. In this film, unlike many previous War Movies, the protagonists are not the usual, humourless, chisel-jawed dedicated Men On A Mission, but live, real, fleshed out, quirky characters - each with their own personality and foibles. And not only that, the film is unpredictable. The old-fashioned game of tired and repetitive 'minor characters' getting offed is eschewed : in this film Everyone Is Game. Anyone can be killed, at any time, for any reason. And quite a few times, characters we know and have grown to love and hate over the length of the film, and history itself, are suddenly, brutally dispatched because.. to not do so would be to suspend belief.
How many times have we seen a film when the BS Moment occurs, and any sense of realism is jettisoned.. because Bruce Willis must win and make it to the end of the film? In "Inglourious Basterds" deaths are brutal, unpredictable, and the internal logic, narrative, and structure is precise and correct.
And it is a movie. Characters are real, larger than life, instantly recognisable, and there are wonderful moments when some of the most evil men in history finally get their just desserts. I'm not telling you who dies, or how, but that people do die, and sometimes in the most satisfyingly brutal manner ever shown on film.
But at the heart of it, the Basterds are just a side effect, a sub-plot, and not the main attraction. Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, and the rest of the capable crew are a wonderful cinematic invention that hark back to the golden age of Nazi films (The Sixties), cut from not just history, but a cinematic history : they chew scenery with a passionate aplomb, talk like real people do, about everything, and nothing, behave with realism, no mere cinematic ciphers designed to propel the plot to the next scene, but live within this world with a rarely seen realism for such a bizarre film.
Particular praise must go to Hans Landa : this charming, fleshed out Jew Hunter. The rest of the cast are effective, and aside from Brad Pitt, there are no major names in the cast, so anyone and anything can and may happen. Aside from this, Tarantino fills the screen with subtitles, unafraid to show at least some linguistic realism, and ramps up the tension as a result. Scenes are long, conversations naturalistic, and tiny details unfold over the length of the film to form a fabulous whole. Most scenes also contain some of the most heart-thumping moments I've recently seen in film. The viewer knows that every scene is there for a reason, and evey conversation has a point. Tarantino plays a wonderfully effective bait and switch, uncoiling tension to incredible lengths, because, at the heart of it, each viewer knows that it is not a matter of it, but when It Will Hit The Fan, and when it does, it does with a fabulous style.
"Basterds" is Tarantino's masterpiece : an amalgam of World War II derring do, Spaghetti Western, and an empowering tale of patient, vicious revenge. So far, this is my film of the year, and Tarantino's creative apex.
 Utter Rubbish July 15, 2010
C. Jones (East Yorkshire)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Badly acted - how corny can Brad Pitt get? Badly made - Very Very dissapointed.
Wouldn't recommend this for a pound shop bargain.
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