Not the film that should be considered Tarantino's best

Rating: 5/10 (20 October 2019)

I have to join the minority dissenting opinion who didn't like this Tarantino take on WWII history much at all. The stars are for Christopher Waltz's terrific performance as the wonderfully charasmatic evil "Jew hunting bast@#$" (as Pitt's character puts it) and the talented Brad Pitt's solid performance with wonderful lines like: "I'm in the Nazi hunting business--and business is good." But it's Tarantino's rewriting of history to represent the Nazi's, and particularly the absolutely bufoonish Hitler laughing maniacally in every scene, that cripples this film's chance of being taken, as it clearly wishes to, seriously. I don't believe this is an attempt at farce, but if it is, the genuinely talented Tarantino has badly mischosen his material for such a treatment. A much more realistic and powerful depiction of Hitler's true personality can be seen in Anthony Hopkin's deeply nuanced performance in the film "The Bunker", and there's a wonderful illustration of the way the Nazis slowly but inextribly took over their own country (before going on to attempt to subjugate so many others) in a somewhat forgotten film of Jimmy Stewart's called "The Mortal Storm". Films like these (and many others) give a much more meaningful understanding understanding of why the allies knew they had to sacrifice millions to combat the Nazi menace. As Churchill famously put it, "You can't reason with the tiger when your head is in its mouth!" See Tarantino's other strong films like "Django Unchained" or "Jackie Brown" to appreciate his undeniable talent that will almost surely ultimately net him a best picture award.