Waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (19 May 2012)

I just want to add my two pennyworth.
It is perfectly OK to create a fantasy world in film, but it has to be self-coherent and logical in its own way (for example The Last Battle,post-apocalypse fantasy where it rains fish and characters armour themselves in pots and pans..the villain keeps a girl in the boot of his car for sex; so when the hero wins, he takes the villain's sharp suit and does the same - it's bizarre but it has its own logic) IG has none of this logic. it's completely incoherent and moronic and apart from about 3 of the Nazis we don't care about anyone - yes this is a film so bad that the bad guys are the only one I was almost rooting for; There's lots of torture, with the "good guys" doing the torturing. It did turn my stomach a bit.
I'll just highlight one particular bit of uber-stupidity. Four anti-Nazis, including a Brit spy and a glamorous German film-star meet in a bar which turns out to be full of off-duty soldiers playing a parlour game; professional spies would abort the meeting, but lets leave that aside.
Then a Gestopo officer appears and makes them play the parlour game: He's super perceptive enough to unmask the Brit spy because of his accent and a gesture He's so super unperceptive that he doesn't recognise German army enemy No 1 Hugo Stiglitz ("everyone knows Hugo Stiglitz" earlier in film)at the table.
He's so stupid that he then pulls a gun (outnumbered 3-1) and the scene turns into a pointless bloodbath. He doesn't make and excuse and leave to find backup, or quietly get the other Germans to arrest the potential spies, which any even remotely normal person would have done.
The film is like that the whole way through. Nothing makes sense. the only fascinating character is SS Colonel Landa; and he inexplicably changes sides at the end.
Some of the other commentators have said what an insult this is to anyone who resisted in WW2. That I agree with but this film seems to be aimed at sub-morons. Question - why did QT put in all the film buff references, which are surely aimed at a completely different and much more discerning audience? Any third-rate afternoon telly WW2 movie sparkles in comparison to this.