The Strangest Resistance

Rating: 10/10 (16 October 2009)

Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) gives a stunning performance in Tanantino's latest – Inglourious Basterds, - that sees alternate history as two parallel and similar plots are hatched to put an end to the Third Reich. Rather limited in the insanity quotient, and actually serious in parts, the plot revolves around the Nazi-killer team led by Lt Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) and their encounters. Typical chapter-based Tarantino narration – the first scene about the purge and introduction to the central character of menace, the long scene and encounter wrt Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) in the basement, the showdown between Hans Landa and the German actress, are the most memorable. The inexplicable fact of Shoshanna owning a theater in the heart of Paris explained away rather trivially, the sharpshooter Pvt Frederick Zoller (Daniel Bruhl) and his mixed emotions, the ramblings on Goebbels' propaganda, the strange silhouette of Marcel and his giant pile of inflammable film make sure that Tarantino's quirky touch is very much alive and kicking. A mellower, more circumspect Tarantino, but enough to keep fans engaged