Tarantino is messing with us again

Rating: 10/10 (4 December 2009)

I saw the Grindhouse double feature when I was in America in 2007 and I loved how Tarantino messed with the audience using timing, scenography and the overall pace of the film.
He's doing much of the same here. What some will see as bad acting (i.e. Brad Pitt's accent) I see as Tarantino making an overstated point. The scene in the theater where Pitt is "attempting" to speak in an Italian accent is case in point. Pitt is the overzealous American soldier while Waltz is the German Colonel who thinks they are playing a gentleman's game.
I loved this movie, mostly because it is so uncompromising, raw and crosses the line in so many different ways. Had it been made ten or fifteen years ago, it would probably have been banned.
Great stuff!