"Nein,nein,nein,nein,nein".....Adolf Hitler

Rating: 1/10 (14 May 2012)

One thing straight away - this isn't "les regles du jeu",this is a ludicrously overcooked fantasy aimed at little boys who go "kak-kak-kak" whilst pretending to fire machine guns. The director - if that's not too strong a word - has "cleverly"- if that's the word - appropriated almost every scene from some cinematic source and camped it up to the extent that "Inglourios Basterds" is what you might call a gay romp through post - D.Day Occupied France. There is no sense here of "lions led by donkeys",merely psychoes led by madmen. Mr Brad Pitt is dreadfully bad as Aldo Ray - yes,I got that thank you Mr Tarantino,surely the worst performance even Mr T has coaxed out of an established actor. He is i/c of a cadre of sadistic psychopathic Jewish "soldiers" whose main task seems to be murdering and desecrating the bodies of German soldiers who are far braver and more honourable than themselves. This of course is Tarantino "irony". There is a sub - plot involving a "comic" Hitler attending a movie premiere in Paris where Mr Pitt's brave lads slaughter virtually the entire audience whilst the cinema burns down (don't ask). The sad thing is there are one or two moments in the 2 and a half hours (and it seemed much longer)where you can see (or glimpse,anyway)that under all the self - indulgent post - modernism,Mr Tarantino has an eye for an image but it is buried under so much baggage and he is so deeply up his own bum that it hardly gets a look in. The opening sequence where a Nazi officer(clever,sophisticated.multi - lingual and quite,quite mad) questions a French farmer about his Jewish neighbours who have slipped the net,is by far the best thing in the movie.I even enjoyed the reference to the title sequence of "The Sound of Music" where the daughter runs across the fields like Julie Andrews, but that was quite enough references for me,thank you. Nobody said "So they call me "Concentration Camp" Erhardt.."but they got too damned close for comfort.