Bloody Mess

Rating: 1/10 (23 August 2009)

What a huge disappointment this movie was. Tarantino's done some off-the-wall but really cool stuff, like "Kill Bill, vols. 1 & 2" or even the classic "Pulp Fiction" but this one just stunk, period. Brad Pitt has shown that he has great acting chops, particularly in stuff like "Seven", "Benjamin Button" and "Snatch" but in this atrocious film, he just hams it up as a twisted, 2-dimensional character who gets his thrill only from the kill (and a whole lot of torturing too). What the hell was he thinking, taking on this role?! Diane Kruger was good as the coolly mysterious Bridget and Micheal Fassbender (who was so good in "Hunger") does the best he can with the role he's stuck playing but seeing Mike Meyers as a general was too much because I kept picturing Austin Powers trying to play leader. Eli Roth should stick to writing and directing those shallow slasher films he specializes in because as an actor, he's just not that talented. Tarantino likes lots of gore in films so he worked some weak little story into the plot so that audiences would sit through his blood-and-guts fest. Better films about alternate history endings and World War 2 in particular are not hard to find. This one belongs on late night cable or worse. What a waste of money and time.