Great moments but fairly all over the place

Rating: 5/10 (26 August 2009)

I really loved characters and moments in this film but felt those gems were hidden in a very sloppy/messy structure and a fairly insensitive film. I know this is what QT was going for but it seems pretty strange to me to trivialize something as serious as this subject matter for a sort of silly entertainment value. I also had a problem with the fact that the Basterds were really featured very sparingly in the film. Its sort of false advertisement of sorts to sell this movie as revolving around these characters and then really spend the majority of the film elsewhere. It felt like Brad Pitt was only in the movie for 45 minutes (out of 2 and a half hours). This structure made it hard to connect with any of the characters as they were so spread out throughout the movie. Also, really great scenes began to drag on and on throughout the film. It felt very self-indulgent. And I really felt the ending was in poor taste.