In Theaters: Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2009)

For those familiar with the work of Quentin Tarantino, you will recall that he admires the use of chapters for dividing a film's narrative into more easily-digestible parts. He employs the technique once again with "Inglourious Basterds", and titles the first of these chapters in a most appropriate way: "Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied France..." Some might look at this just as a catchy slogan, used for stylistic purposes exclusively. But, Tarantino means it quite literally; this is not World War II as history books would describe it, but rather a fairy tale of the war that ends with a drastically-different and far more appropriate conclusion. I shall put it this way: for those of you who believe in karma, this is how you probably believe World War II should have ended. But, really, this movie is not even about World War II...it is about, as Brad Pitt's character so elegantly states, the "killin' Nazi business." And yes, business is a-boomin' here.
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