Brilliant Actors, unconventional, absolutely convincing

Rating: 10/10 (21 August 2009)

I just watched the movie and found it worthy to post my first IMDb comment after using the IMDb for years. One point motivating me is the fact that i am a German and i'm sure a lot of people might find it interesting to hear from a German point of view that this film is hilarious. Please excuse my untrained school English.
First of all i want to name the hilarious acting of Christoph Waltz. I'm afraid not to have seen the original Version of the Film yet so i can only imagine the dialogs being mixed in English french and German. What i have seen for now was really inspiring. The Dialogues which take a lot of room in the plot are special special and special. Each Plot has a Main Dialogue or Monologue (Pit when Introducing the Basterds) which is originally written and full of turnarounds. Waltz gives a wonderful Van Cleeve like Bad who is brutal intelligent and cold but in a way admirable. Tension is created through every word he speaks cause one never really knows how intelligent tarentino lets him be. Pitt does a great job playing the cool American nazi killer. Melanie Laurant is beautiful in every situation she's in and her acting ins absolutely convincing i won't forget her FACE for a wile. Schweiger (i don't really like him) does what he has to and is both amusing and absolutely cool. And especially to mention doing a great performance in one of the long Dialogues is August Diehl. He creates Tension out of nothing and is releasing it through laughs only to create it again. For me the best "side acting". Kruger is as i feared before the only bad part of the acting, but maybe that's because she is so German in trying to be an American playing a German. The synchronization she does for the German version is bad, really bad. But i could bear it since the rest of the acting was so good. Tarentino did the best job since pulp by giving the actors room to unfold.
As i mentioned Dialogues in the Film are given most of the 150min of the Movie but no dialog is destroying the tension. It's like Turn and River card all along like Leone does in a fistful. They are simply captivating you i didn't want them to stop.
I thought the film would only be a brutal American interpretation of Nazi-Germany and how to best give them what they deserve which is the main aspect of the Trailer. Tarentino is doing this in a way, but for me not too much and concentrates more one originality than on brutality. He played with my sympathy all the time by giving all the Germans in the movie some sympathetic aspects and making fun out of cultural mix-ups.
The western elements are there, and he is not trying to hide that he wants some Leone in his movie. The main characters are good bad and ugly. These attributes can be distributed in many ways just find out for yourself. The nazi's in the movie often show Wallach like behavior.
The Germans in the movie seem authentic to me which is another plus. Casting German actors was an important decision for the authenticity of the movie. Ohterwise i guess a lot have Germans would not buy it and simply call it typical American interpretation of German cultural aspects.
To come to an end Dialogues as creative as only tarentino can create, tension which is worthy to call it Leone like , a bad guy who can compete with Van Cleef, Actors who are set in scene in this special tarentino way. Best Fim since Dark Knight.