The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - this is Tarantino's Ugliest Movie

Rating: 3/10 (25 August 2009)

I am not sure, what kind of movie this product wants to be: if it is a thriller, it is not exciting enough. If it is an action movie, the action don't meets the standard. If it is a secret agent movie, then it is not ... secret and well-planned enough. If it is one of these old Italo wild West movies, then it was made fifty years after the hey-days of Italo westerns.
But maybe the comparison with one of these old Italo westerns from the era of the 1950's to the 1960's is still the best. The best way to describe this movie is to call it an Italo western which plays in the 1940's, and which has music which sounds similar to the music of the great (and still living!) Italian composer Ennio Morricone. I am not saying, that this movie is a good movie, so don't understand me. I consider this movie as a series of copies from cinematic effects of those old movies, an attempt to reach the standards of those old movies, but an attempt in vain. It looks to me much more like a collage of old effects, brought together like a pattern without deeper sense.
What I like is the fact, that bad German Nazis get really beaten up in this movie. But still, this movie don't uses many historical facts but just mixes wishes and fantasies of the film makers with some very brutal scenes of man slaughter (even if these are Nazis). This movie tries to be a "hard" movie, but as in so many other disciplines, here it fails as well. It could be the first or second attempt of a movie by a young, not fully experienced newcomer in the movie making industry, and the screen play or script writing could have been done by a student, too. An example: at one point in the movie, the secretly-acting Americans know they will mix with many Germans. They decide to play being Italians. However, there is no proper preparation, no language training, no reason why men in such an undercover mission would ever decide to play being of another nationality without having taken proper preparation. And of course, they encounter a German who speaks Italian, and they fail totally in speaking Italian. Would that have happened during a real mission? I doubt. That movie makes the Americans acting like children without any proper sense of preparation. Unlogical, is the word coming into one's mind. Highly unlogical. Trentin Tarantino is the famous-sounding name of the movie maker, but I think, an immature early teeny in his puberty made the film in reality.
If you have a boring evening, you will be happy to have this movie to watch. If your cinema next door has more than one movie to play, then check out what other movies it offers tonight. I watched this movie while being abroad, and think I could have spend my money for the local cuisine there.
The story can be told in brief words: during the nazi occupation of France, some really really bad brutal American soldiers all of Jewish believe somehow manage to live in France without being hunted properly, and they spend their days in killing Nazis in strange ways. Also, there is a young and beautiful - no, not a princess - women whose family was killed by the Nazis and now she wants to kill them, too. Of course the brutal American soldiers meet that very beautiful women, and now they do their thing together.
This movie, which is almost certainly not a high-budget movie, is not deep-going, but remains very shallow, sketchy and caricaturing the true history of the real events those days in the France of the Hitler days. The only good point I could give to this weird movie is the fact, that Nazis get some beating. I just wished that movie would have been on a much higher level. Then I would like it. Oh, one thing more: don't let young children watch this movie, please. Some murder scenes are really strange. You don't want them to have strange fantasies after this movie...
* the words Hitler and Nazis were been intentionally spelled in lower case.