A Fictional Film That Could Replace Actual History

Rating: 10/10 (5 January 2012)

A group of hardened Nazi killers stalk their prey in Nazi-occupied France as a Jewish cinema owner plots to take down top-ranking SS officers during the official premiere of a high-profile German propaganda film entitled,Inglourious Basterds.It is a war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and it features Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz and Mélanie Laurent. It tells the fictional story of two plots to assassinate the Nazi Germany political leadership, one planned by a young French Jewish cinema proprietor, and the other by a team of Jewish Allied soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine.
As far as Lt. Aldo Raine is concerned, the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi. Raine's mission is to strike fear into the heart of Adolf Hitler by brutally murdering as many goose-steppers as possible, or die trying. In order to accomplish that goal, Lt. Raine recruits a ruthless team of cold-blooded killers known as "The Basterds" which includes baseball- bat-wielding Bostonian Sgt. Donnie Donowitz and steely psychopath Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz, among others. When the Basterds' secret rendezvous with turncoat German actress Bridget von Hammersmark goes awry, they learn that the Nazis will be staging the French premiere of "The Nation's Pride," a rousing propaganda film based on the exploits of German hero Fredrick Zoller, at a modest theater owned by Jewish cinephile Shoshanna Dreyfus, posing as a Gentile after the brutal murder of her family by the ruthless Col. Hans Landa. As the Basterds hatch an explosive plan to take out as many Nazis as possible at the premiere, they remain completely oblivious to the fact that Shoshanna, too, longs to bring the Third Reich to its knees, and that she's willing to sacrifice her beloved theater in the process.
This is a classic Tarantino genre-blending thrill ride of a great movie.It is violent, unrestrained, and thoroughly entertaining.This was a World War II revamped Tarantino style movie that succeeds as the ultimate fantasy revenge story as a Kill Hitler which stands as one the best works in the career of its influential filmmaker.It shows how they Shows how most of us turn to film for both fantasy escape and an avenue to make the abstract past tangible, enough to even possibly, and powerfully, replace actual history.Attribute that to the cast brilliant and excellent performance and Tarantino's direction. The only negative thing about it is the film was overlong and draggy in some scenes. But despite some of the scenes dragging on too long, Inglourious Basterds is still a lot of fun, altering history for the better as the Nazis feel the force of redemption.