Historically Inaccurate, but Who Cares? That's Obviously the Intention, and it Works Super Well

Rating: 9/10 (8 February 2016)

I had some expectations for this movie, but not a whole lot. Despite it's good ratings, it's metascore was lower than that of most of Tarantino's movies and I'd been told that the movie kind of sucked anyways. Nevertheless, I still was looking forward to it. I'd say that it was quite well done in the end.
The plot of Inglourious Basterds is a simple one for that of a World War II movie: a group of people want to kill Hitler and end the war. There a large focus on cinema however, which I think was kind of interesting. And there were two plots to kill Hitler going at once, which was cool to see too. I was surprised though, because the movie is super historically inaccurate. But it's obvious that that was supposed to be the case, so it's not important to me.
The characters are pretty good. For most of them you care enough to feel tension when bad things happen/have the potential to happen, and you know that you would care if any of them died. And despite how brutal some of them are, they can be pretty funny too. One thing that I did like was that both of the main characters received a relatively equal amount of screen time, so while I still think it's obvious who the main character is, it's still nice that no plot or character is made out to be more important than the other.
The acting is quite good too. Most of the actors portray their characters super well and it makes for some incredibly tense and funny situations. If the characters had been played by anyone else I think that the movie would have been much less effective. Christoph Waltz was especially good. He was easily the most effective character in the entire movie. Eli Roth and Brad Pitt are very good as well, and of course MÃ©lanie Laurent was great.
Overall Inglourious Basterds is very good. The plots are great, the characters are good, and the acting is great. There wasn't really anything that I'd say was wrong about this movie, it's just an 8/10 movie. In the end I'd certainly recommend this movie to anyone looking for an awesome, funny, violent war movie, so long as you don't worry about intentional historical inaccuracies.