'We're in the killing nazi business and, cousin, business is booming.'

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 2020)

Right up there with the very best of Quentin, this film is a wartime masterpiece. Beginning in 1941, in Nazi-occupied France, the German army are in pursuit of all remaining Jewish families in the country. An intimate group of soldiers known around the world as 'The Basterds' bring vigilante justice onto the Nazis and continue to recruit the very best at providing 'ONE. HUNDRED. NAZI. SCALPS!' each; to exact vengeance for all the Jewish people they discriminated against. Firstly, it's a great premise that is accompanied by the fact it really cares for the afflicted in these dreadful times and through the beauty of escapism, gives audiences an alternative vision of Hitler's downfall that is altogether more satisfying. The cast are all brilliant; particular stand outs from Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine, The leader of the Basterds (GORLAMI!!') Melanie Laurent as Shosanna Dresfuss and of course a masterful career defining performance from Christoph Waltz as the evil Col. Hans Landa (THATS A BINGO!) who manages to make the normally delightful act of eating a strudel nerve shreddingly intense. Each chapter is perfectly paced and told well; the rendezvous in an enclosed tavern named La Louisiane for example is absolutely brilliant. The soundtrack is possibly my favourite in Tarantino's catalogue; classic tunes by Morricone echo throughout including the beautiful Un Amico in the cinema toward the end. Exciting and relentlessly entertaining