Masterpiece Carried By It's Non-Superstar Actors

Rating: 9/10 (7 January 2010)

'Inglourious Basterds' like almost every Quentin Tarantino project was a masterful screenplay made into a cinematically appealing film. Tarantino's willingness to tell stories in an unconventional fashion allows him to stand out from other directors, and continually attract the interest of top-notch actors such as Brad Pitt in 'Inglourious Basterds.' However, in this film it wasn't the performance of Brad Pitt that stood-out -although he played his role wonderfully -it was instead two supporting actors who truly made this film remarkable. The first being Christoph Waltz who truly showed North American viewers how talented an actor he truly is. His ability to fluidly transition between English, German, French, and Italian was remarkable, and he also managed to capture the hearts and attention of viewers despite being thrust into the 'bad guy' role. The other memorable performance was that of Melanie Laurent, who in addition to being stunningly beautiful, was able to portray such real emotion in a character so many actresses would have difficulty portraying. I was simply amazed by the performance these two individuals gave, and would recommend any fan of film to see this film simply to see them, even if you are not typically a fan of Tarantino projects. The only possible miscue, was the casting of Mike Myers as 'General Ed Fenech,' as funny as Mike can be at times, his placement in this film was extremely questionable, they may as well have casted one of the Jonas brothers and it would have been equally inappropriate.