Disgraceful glorification of torture

Rating: 1/10 (27 November 2019)

The same people who condemned "Zero Dark Thirty" for a disgusting torture scene lauded "Inglourious Basterds" for even worse torture sequences. Bludgeoning and disfiguring of German prisoners is a blatant war crime, never performed by commandos. Writer-director Tarantino makes it seem commendable.
The film is also historically inaccurate on nearly every level. It shows Hitler relishing a violent sniper movie, in a public theater. Hitler enjoyed musicals, opera, and Mickey Mouse cartoons, not war pictures. He visited occupied France once, in 1940, and never again. The man had a bunker mentality early on.
Goebbels also would not have attended a contemporary propaganda shoot-em-up picture. He preferred over-produced costume dramas, such as "Kolberg". Even he thought "The Eternal Jew" pseudo-documentary was in bad taste. Goebbels was a suave, sprightly intellectual, thus making him far more sinister in real life than in this shallow film.
We all laud Christoph Waltz's performance, but he was a cultured villain from another movie, like "The Train", "How I Won the War", "Three Came Home", or "Bridge on the River Kwai." He should have been in a more accurate, believable drama.
Offensive inaccuracy aside, this tedious film gives you no one to root for.