Tarantino's Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (19 September 2009)

Finally saw Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds tonight and it just blew me away. Wonderful cinematography, and an immensely satisfying film. LOVED it! Amazing acting all around, but Eli Roth as the Bear Jew Donny Donowitz and Michael Fassbender as Lt Archie Hicox, not to mention the female leads Diane Kruger (Bridget von Hammersmark) and Mélanie Laurent (Shoshanna Dreyfus) are exceptionally brilliant. As for Christoph Waltz as Nazi Col. Hans Landa -- he is incredible. If Lanz doesn't win a Oscar, the Academy won't ever have been more unfair... That man can express more with his eyes than most actors can with a ten minute soliloquy.
Anyhow, dark but perfect humor, intellect, brutal but necessary action and gorgeous cinematography. An homage to cinema's greats and history, and the best movie I've seen this year, and yes, Tarantino's masterpiece. A wonderful movie.