Entertaining, but at the expense of gratuitous violence

Rating: 6/10 (14 July 2017)

I felt the film could have been so much better. We have some great actors and an interesting premise, but the movie just doesn't hang together. The plot is too far-fetched and the violence too gratuitous; also, the actors depicting the major Nazis were poorly cast (especially Hitler). Brad Pitt was good in his role, but the one redeeming feature was the acting of Christoph Waltz as Colonel Hans Landa, who was so astoundingly realistic as a Jew-hunter Nazi that he made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck. Rarely have I seen a performance so perfectly attuned to the character portrayed.