One of my personal favourites

Rating: 10/10 (31 March 2012)

The first thing I thought when the credits to this movie rolled was: Only Quentin Tarrantino can come up with a movie like this and get away with it! For me it turned out to be one of the most exhilarating movie experiences in recent years.
I mean seriously: If someone told you that there is a movie about WWII in which Hitler is shot in a french movie theatre by a bunch of Jewish-American resistance fighters, you would think it can only be some low budget farce. The mere fact that you can take this movie seriously is a big achievement in itself.
What I admire most about the movie is the carefulness with which it was made. An American filmmaker who actually bothers to pick Germany's finest in his cast (Daniel Bruehl, August Diehl, Til Schweiger and so on) is almost unheard of. And Christoph Waltz - What a revelation that guy is. I honestly did not now him before I saw the movie even though I am German and being Austrian he had starred in countless German/Austrian movies before. His performance of SS Col. Hans Landa is one of the finest I have ever seen.
I do not want to get into details about the plot here, enough has been written about it already. One other thing about the movie that struck me is how well the German dubbed version is made (although I do not know to which extent Q was involved here). Of course the original version is still superior, but compared to the ragged dubbing of most other non-German movies (I just cannot stand this any more, going to the cinema in Germany can be a very frustrating experience), the job done here was quite decent. Of course it had a lot to do with the fact that all English lines of German actors were done in German by those same actors. In the first scene of the movie it took me a while to even realize that the scene was dubbed.
So see this movie and see it now! You will not regret it.