A work of theatrical and entertainment genius

Rating: 10/10 (28 December 2009)

A brief comment is all that is required. Inglorious Basterds is a work of genius, it has been crafted by a man who knows film, who knows theatricality and story telling and who has the drive to take a medium to another place, another level, without saying "look at my genius, what a great film maker I am".
Here is a work of fantasy that grabs its audience early and, in a world saturated with images and movies, it manages to hold on to its audience and thoroughly entertain them for nearly three hours.
Every work of greatness has its flaw, its crack in the smooth plaster and in the case of Inglorious Basterds, it is what I consider the miscasting of Mike Myers, who gives his tiny role, the most obviously cod performance imaginable. I can only assume that he has worked under his own direction for too long.