Let's Make Believe...

Rating: 1/10 (26 January 2010)

This movie is nothing but a "What If" movie and not a good one at that. Spoilers throughout! What if we let soldiers run loose as a blood thirsty mob hacking away and beating the enemy to a pulp with a baseball bat, scalping them, mutilating them with no regard to the Geneva Conventions in regard to treatment of prisoners. What if the Germans were complete idiots when it came to security. Let's get real folks, do you believe that three Americans posing as Italians but not being able to speak Italian would have been let within 100 miles of Adolf Hitler. The whole idea of Adolf Hitler attending a movie in occupied France is pretty far fetched in itself, let alone throw in all the security blunders such as not having guards posted at all entrance and exit points, the roof, basement and inside the theater itself. That Hitler would have been seated with the rest and not had a private viewing spot that was also heavily guarded. That there would not have been any K9's to sniff out bombs. Then the final insult, what if Hitler had been killed, no mutilated with a slurry of machine gun fire along with the rest of his elite officers. So much for history, we are now in fantasy land. "The Wizard of Oz" is a complete fantasy but at least there was plot that made it a great movie. I might as well have been watching my nephew play one of his war video games. Big Spoiler Here! The movie was suppose to be about a group of men who took on the German army but there were only a few scenes of them. Those scenes were bloody and brutal and if anything left you feeling sorry for the Germans. Somehow this group blundered in on a secret mission that would get rid of the entire German leadership. The whole spy thing goes bad when an SS officer detects the English accent of the spy posing as a German officer, duh. To make matters worse three of the Basterds then take the spot of the spys that were killed and we are suppose to believe that these three Americans who spoke only a few words of Italian passed without incident to sit only a few rows away from Hitler himself. Then with only the barest of security our Basterds are able to plow down the entire German military leadership along with Hitler himself. Really, I've told better tales than this. I was really hoping for something more intelligent than this. I'm trying to figure out how this movie rated so well, did we watch the same movie or has the audience just forgotten what a good movie is?