Nazi executing Jews- What's not to like?!?

Rating: 9/10 (10 April 2013)

If I am to talk films here, I must immediately state this- I am a HUGE Tarantino fan! I love all of his films I've seen so far and three of them are in my top 10 favourites of all time! That being said, I had watched Inglourious Basterds once in the past and wasn't very satisfied even when it was called one of Tarantino's best.
A group of Jewish soldiers who call themselves the Basterds plan to execute Nazis. The leader of this group, played brilliantly by Brad Pitt, is Lt. Raine, who demands 100 Nazi scalps from each of his men, even to the point of Adolf Hitler fearing these Basterds! What's not to like from this part of the story alone! Nazi executing Jewish badasses! HECK YEAH! That is only one part of what is an exceptional story. On the other hand, we have an escaped and on the hunt Jew, from the Jew hunter, played in an Oscar winning performance by Christoph Waltz.
Seriously, the Jew Hunter is one of the greatest villains and one of my favourite characters in a movie, especially a Tarantino flick! This Jew now owns a cinema after fleeing from the Jew hunter as she witnessed him kill her family. When a new German film is scheduled to be located at her cinema, she plots to burn down the cinema and thus kill the Jew hunter and the Germans which really coincides with the Basterds plot to destroy the Big Four and win the war! That is most of the story revealed and makes for an entertaining as hell 2 ½ hours!
Every Tarantino flick, basically, has a powerful opening and this film certainly is one of them! The conversation between The Jew Hunter, Hans Landa and the man hiding the Jews was fantastic! The dialogue is Tarantino's trademark! A soldier's greatest strength is his weapon and Tarantino's weapon is based on his ability to write amazing dialogue and characters! Whilst not quite up to match with Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs as well as recently released Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds has a lot to offer with its story, the characters, the dialogue and the fantastic execution! Whilst the film is generally fantastic, it's the only Tarantino film that I find to seriously get slow for a good ten minutes! That's when we have the German soldiers and a few Jews in disguise as they talk around for a café. Whilst this dialogue is mainly entertaining, it's really the only time I feel Tarantino film may have been dragged on. This, at that moment, was a serious issue for me but boythat end just justifies the whole thing! The last half hour to forty five minutes of this film is utterly amazing, it's just genius in every possible way!
The entertainment, the laughter, the thrills just never stop! Like all good Tarantino films, this film contains a fantastic cast and an amazing soundtrack- as all Tarantino films do! The scene stealers, Brad Pitt and Christoph Waltz are what truly elevates this film like Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta did with Tarantino's masterpiece, Pulp Fiction. No character truly feels one dimensional, none feel bland and such, the story never feels uninteresting! One of the best moments of the film, for my money, would be the very end scene where Brad Pitt remarks "This might just be my masterpiece" as the credits roll and that amazing soundtrack plays! That was just amazing the way Tarantino really is just attempting to convey how he thinks this 2009 film may be his masterpiece but it isn't just that. The scene was shot amazingly and acted breath takingly.
We have a Tarantino veteran returning in this film and may be unnoticeable to some! That is legend Samuel L Jackson as JulesNah, kidding he narrates the film and he's always welcome! To pick the most entertaining aspect of the film, it would have to be the story with the Basterds! That was generally fantastic. In the end, of all the Tarantino films I've seen which include Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds would probably still rank my least favourite of them but is still a pretty damn high achievement in film making by legend Quentin Tarantino who yet again, fails to disappoint one of his fans!