Not as good as I expected

Rating: 4/10 (15 January 2010)

I was never big fan of war movies in general and of WWII movies in particular, but, when I heard that Mr Tarantino made the movie of this genre I was intrigued. More so when I saw him in an interview where he said that he basically threw away all bondages of historical accuracy and allowed his artistic creativity to soar free from the tyranny of past events. That sounded promising. He did such a great job with "Pulp Fiction" with funny, lively and surprising plot, colorful characters and with touch of bizarre that just made it so entertaining and memorable. I expected nothing less from the movie made by the same artistic genius. I watched the movie, and I did enjoy somewhat...some things there. I did NOT like the plot. Not a single bit. I found it plain, boring, shallow, predictable, and just plain silly. Characters were somewhat better, I found pitting one sadistic psychopath against another sadistic psychopath amusing, but I saw at least one movie and (a few episodes of) one TV series with that sort of thing. It seemed that what I was left enjoying were those little details, clever clues, and witty and nuanced verbal exchanges peppered all over the movie. I was like a bird that enjoyed pecking juicy grubs out of rotten log. However, in this case, the juiciest morsels were reserved for very special birds, the ones with very, very sophisticated beak. Unfortunately, I am not the one of those special birds. I got some tidbits and just looked at the other ones, hopelessly out of my reach. Well, so be it. I will let those lucky ones to praise the feast, I was left more hungry than full.