A Nasty Piece of Work

Rating: 2/10 (23 March 2010)

I really wanted to like this. Mark Kermode and a few other reviewers has said the sub plots were worthy of awards. But it was so horrible to watch. The non-Geneva Convention US/Jewish Death Squad. The eponymous 'heroes' of the piece. Where on earth did he dream those up ? Unhistorical, illegal and surely more at home in Viet Nam or Nicaragua in the 1970s. What really saddened me is that many youngsters ignorant of history will think these people were real and not made up. I started rooting for the poor Nazis as these alleged 'heroes' were so vile. I couldn't understand the glorification of the heroes in the film as 'kill them all and let God sort them out' type murderers. All German's were not Nazis. Many were simply enlisted men. Real stories from World War Two reveal this. This was simple racist hatred. Were there really Jewish Death Squads in WW2 ? Or did Tarantino just wish that there were ? I gave up before the Hitler assassination attempt. The fantasy sequence in the cinema was too stupid to bear. The guy portraying Hitler was ridiculous too. The worst version since Mel Brookes the Producers. By making him a buffoon it diminishes him. Why do it ? The worst excesses though remain the unnecessary gory violence. The Mohawk style scalping surely unknown outside the Goumier in the French Colonial Army, and the clubbing to death of prisoners, surely copied from Nazi tactics from the Holocaust, sat uneasily with US troops as the perpetrators. It seems Tarantino's blood lust knows no end and he will never grow up past the age of 18.