Best foreign film I've ever seen!

Rating: 9/10 (22 August 2009)

Not at all what the trailers suggest, Basterds is still amazingly fun and interesting. Less a movie and more an experience, the film will either amaze or disappoint (there seems to be no in between). Fans of Tarantino's other movies will more than likely enjoy it, or at least appreciate the style, originality, and violence that is at times so intense it's hilarious. With the majority of the film being in German and French (requiring English subtitles), you will hear many moviegoers throwing around the words "boring" and "fucking terrible", but I found that after about ten minutes I no longer realized I was both watching and reading a movie simultaneously. There are some memorable characters in Basterds, Col. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) being utterly terrifying and Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) being bad ass and hilarious. Some scenes of dialogue exceed 20 minutes, but aren't nearly as boring as that would lead you to believe. Tarantino creates brilliant scenes that feel like a rubber band being stretched until they finally snap. The long scenes create an extremely intense atmosphere that make the climaxes that much more satisfying. After seeing what was possibly the best last half hour of any movie in the past 5 years, I wanted to immediately sneak into the next showing to enjoy the 2.5 hour epic (which actually flies by and rarely feels slow) that is Inglorious Basterds.