Many Great Scenes; Many Scenes of Dubious Quality

Rating: 5/10 (29 June 2011)

********** This review DOES contain spoilers ********
********** This review DOES contain spoilers ********
********** This review DOES contain spoilers ********
In as much as I have "personal" objections regarding the "manner" in which Israel was "created" I am no enemy to any people or person and wish peace for everyone. This movie, to me, "essentially" says that Jewish people cannot be trusted to keep their word (the last scene). Bad taste would not be the word for it. I sit here stunned (I am not Jewish). ...Note: I may be very wrong in my interpretation, yet, that's what I felt was said in the end.
While I found "Part 1" (or whatever the nomenclature is) excellent, I wanted to break the DVD and throw it away after the character "Bear Jew" (Eli Roth; acting: excellent) beat a German soldier (possibly SS) to death with a baseball bat while Bear's comrades cheered. While I understand that this may have been portrayed in irony (which would bring us to political debate), the violence was out of place, which, again, if it was irony... well, I suppose that "would" be the point. Nonetheless, I was about to throw the movie away but forced myself to watch it.
There "are" 100% marvelous scenes that hit the spot 100%. For example, when the "war hero" (Daniel Brühl) intrudes upon "Emmanuelle Mimieux" and she asks him to lock the door, etc., etc., (I shall not spoil it completely) well, that scene was marvelously comical just at that moment, just after the "war hero" did a switch on us from squeamish (in watching his heroics in the movie within the movie) to brutal vs Emmanuel. There are 100% marvelous scenes like that dotted, and some prolonged, throughout the movie. The "card game" in the tavern comes to mind.
What was done with Mélanie Laurent (Emmanuelle) and Christoph Waltz (The Jew Hunter) was marvelous. I very much liked their acting. I liked the British character too (Michael Fassbender), who posed as a Nazi. The acting by all, overall, I would say was quite good. As for Brad Pitt, well, his character was Tarantino's "fool" and I have yet to decipher the director's exact intentions regarding Pitt's character, but I felt Pitt acted as he was supposed to act. There was nothing wrong with Pitt, perhaps his character, but not Pitt.
There are marvelous scenes, and there are scenes which portray horror, some scenes successfully, some perhaps not well at all, and I will have to watch this movie again to see if my initial interpretation was correct.
I would recommend the movie for the "frequent enough" marvelous scenes, and for the controversial ones as well.