His Best.

Rating: 8/10 (22 November 2017)

This is definitely my favorite Tarantino movie, easily the most impressive showcase of his writing ability. It's flashy writing, which maybe indicates that it isn't as good as it seems. Nonetheless, it was a lot of fun to watch and provided some great lessons in writing well- structured scenes. I was surprised to find less violence and blood here than in most other Tarantino movies , especially because it is his only war movie.
Like the other Tarantino movies, this is full of memorable characters with inventive introductions, an inventively structured plot, unique dialogue, dark comedy at every turn, long yet engaging conversations, and some over-the-top violence. I felt that his abilities as a writer are employed better in this movie than any others, but we also get treated to some good characters played by excellent actors. Brad Pitt was fun to watch as Aldo. Christoph Waltz gives a good performance here for a decently interesting character. Shoshanna is, in my opinion, probably the best female character that Tarantino has written, and I was very much rooting for her in her inventive scheme of taking revenge on the Nazi's. My favorite character was Lt. Hicox played by Michael Fassbender, and I wished we got a little more time to see him in action.
The story is not one that is great as a unified piece of work, but it is fun and interesting to watch as it is playing out. My favorite scene was the one in the bar, because it had the best set-ups and payoffs. By that point in the movie I knew that the world of the movie was one in which every fact or twist that was introduced within a scene would pay off by the end of the scene no matter how long that might take. The opening scene is important for keeping the audience's interest throughout, because it teaches us to suspend our impatience for the rest of the film. If it weren't for the nature of the opening, we would likely get bored at the lack of cohesive plot and drawn out scenes. The ending did not have the same sort of buildup structure of the rest of the movie, but it was still interesting to watch because it brought all of the remaining characters together to meet their fate, so to speak.
Even though this was a very entertaining movie to see, I can't help feeling a little disappointed looking at it in retrospect. It just seems like a shame that such talented filmmaking and writing was used to make a movie with no real theme or substance to it. I wasn't expecting there to be anything deep here, but it still saddens me that a writer- director as brilliant as Tarantino never makes anything that has any kind of meaning to it. Overall Rating: 8.5/10.