An action packed though mindless world war 2 film

Rating: 6/10 (31 October 2009)

Lets begin with the bad and end with the good. Inglorious Basterds plays as well as its title sounds, meaning the title embodies the entire movie. Some back country hick, and some Jews, collaborate to perform some not-so elaborate schemes of insurrection against the nazi high command. Sounds fun and appeals to audiences that want to see the nazi's completely debased, which they are to levels I have never seen in any other movie.
The movie is totally one-dimensional and revolves around the general notion that "Nazi's are bad people and they should be killed." This is the view that many people share ever since world war 2 started and then ended. So people who cannot see the depth in the Nazi schema cannot expect to find it here.
This is a feel-good movie that is meant to be fun and one exhilarating ride for today's superficial minded audience. For people who wish to find some depth or at the very least an accurate depiction of the nazi regime and its constituent functionaries, they will be completely disappointed.
In the end the only rudimentary principle that this movie follows is: Dumbing down Hitler and his associates and swapping the cruelness of the Nazis with the Jews. And whatever happens afterward is OK since they "deserve" it. Life does not work that way and history in know way did either.