'Inglourious Basterds'.......or 'How the USA won WW2 with 10 men'

Rating: 6/10 (19 April 2014)

I've seen this film twice, the second time on TV only last week. It's about a group of US Jewish Soldiers who are in Europe during WW2 who go about killing Nazi soldiers in the most brutal fashion. Somehow they get mixed up in a strange caper to wipe out the entire Hirearchy Nazi regime including Hitler, Goebbels, Goring, Nazi Generals, wives and girlfriends etc, etc, by locking them in a cinema where they are viewing pro-Nazi propaganda films. The violence throughout the film is shocking and vile, but of course WW2 was a shocking and vile war. The outstanding actor in the film is Christoph Waltz who plays the Nazi Col. Hans Landa who in his scenes uses excellent underlying menace without always using violence itself. The scenes with actor Denis Menochet, who is excellent, and another scene with actress Melanie Laurent, who is also truly wonderful, were memorable. However, I must say that even Christoph Waltz's portrayal of a brutal Nazi is not as good as Ralph Fiennes Nazi, Amon Goeth, in 'Schindlers List.' And August Diehl, who plays Major Hellstrom certainly deserves a mention as do most of the rest of the cast...... Oh, and I almost forgot, Brad Pitt is in there somewhere but I'm not at all sure why.....