This has a great beginning with an okay buildup, but it fails miserably at the ending

Rating: 3/10 (13 May 2015)

Many people nowadays will say that Quentin is a genius filmmaker who hasn't made anything bad before and all his films are masterpieces. But there is a small minority of people who say that while he is talented, he hasn't made anything fantastic for a while. This is probably his worst film by far.
I'm actually very surprised at how much praise this movie has. As other reviewers have said, the beginning is the best part. This movie builds up pretty good. It was a bit too drawn out for me but it was still pretty good. I liked learning about what the characters were planning and it was pretty entertaining.
But the ending was awful. It's way too fantastic and unbelievable. Especially Hitler's portrayal. The viewer cannot suspend disbelief at the unrealism. I respect liberties taken with history, but to create an ending which completely denies the actual historical events and brings the movie down to some mediocre cartoon: just mocks the viewer's intelligence.
Also, I really hate the way that it portrays Hitler and his guards as morons and cowards. It's just laughable.
This movies sadism is another major flaw. Quentin likes putting violence in his movies. It's fitting considering that WW2 was a brutal time period. But considering that the movie has a mostly straight face, Quentin takes it a bit too far. The movie shows cutting off the scalps of Nazi's, carving the swastika in their forehead, and showing Hitler getting shot 100 times even though he was probably dead after the first 5 shots.
Diane Kruger and Christolph Waltz gave excellent performances but Brad Pitt was not even remotely believable the second at his entrance.
I enjoyed "Desperado" because it was in part a spoof and very entertaining. I disliked this one because it was too fanciful and unreal. I felt like it insulted me.