It's not for everyone, but it's QT in his finest hour.

Rating: 10/10 (27 August 2009)

This might be, by any means, my favorite QT movie so far. Maybe that's because I have also made quite some progress by myself, but I still like to give Inglorious Basterds two thumbs up.
It's QT in his purest form, and in his finest hour. Before the movie's release, medias had quite some good time chatting about Brad Pitt's involvement and the controversy the movie aroused up. All these are good signs for those investors, since Inglorious Basterds have triumphed in the box office already. However, Brad Pitt is not the point of the movie. His performance is manageable but not top-notch, yet he's still funny in almost every scene. On the other hand, the supporting cast are the real stars. Christoph Waltz as the sophisticated, sadistic schemer Col. Hans Landa is not to be missed. Unlike a lot of Nazis portrait, he's a mixture between a stereotypical Nazi and a smart farce. Actually, that can also be the summary of the entire film. The one who faced him off was Melane Laurent, whose performance was very impressive in terms of dimensions and details. In some shots, she looked extremely like Tobey Maguire(no kidding). And, I have to mention Diane Kruger, who have never been so brilliant in front of the camera. QT really has some talents to squeeze the potential out of those actors and actress.......
The movie did not try to break through in terms of cinematographic or the camera movements, which means they are good as usual like all the other QT movies. Still, some scenes are ingenious. The final scene was mostly technically-persuasive. In some way, this is also the most stationary movie QT made, since the 90% the conversation was in foreign language and there were not so many casual sequences like in Death Proof or Reservoir Dogs.
Concerning Reservoir Dogs, Inglorious Basterds can be considered as its sequel, but more expensive, a lot bloodier and even more over-the-top. Like RD, IB is not for everyone. It's not a good movie to take your kids to. It's also definitely not the best family movie if you consider to take you 80-year-old grandma to. But it's so over-the-top on the dramatic side and comedy side as well. If you don't totally hate it, the efforts put into the screenplay will show you how to turn the greatest war fought in human history into a satire. The lies and tricks set in the beginning of the movie as well as in every chapter's beginning will automatically catch you. Later it naturally catches you off-guard. You may care for all the characters in the movie and even sob for their fates, but you just can't help laughing out at the idiotic status of every climax. The whole thing reached a new peak in the final chapter of the movie, which told some truths about the humanity.....If I expose any bit of the story, it will not make such a surprise for you. Let's describe it this way, you saw the first 3 minutes and assumed it would be very serious, but later you found the underlying mockeries in it. The intentional jokes are obvious to catch and are all funny. But when you walk out of the cinema and recalled the way Hitler acted, and think about the whole idea again, you will laugh your butts off.
Liked it very much, one of the most satisfying movies of the year. I bet 3 Oscars on it. 10/10. QT is becoming more an more careful and bold at the same time. Bravo!