Another Tarantino movie.

Rating: 8/10 (30 July 2010)

Quentin Tarantino has a unique style that is all his own in terms of how he makes movies; he tends to be crude in the visual delivery, but still manages to make the movie entertaining. Inglourious Basterds is about one of the most gruesome wars in history, and this is right up Tarantino's alley so to speak, gore is what Tarantino does best.
Tarantino takes Inglourious Basterds and essentially rewrites history in order to tell a story about how things might have been if a few factors had been different. Specifically, how an elite squad of killers was commissioned to seek out Nazi's and treat them the way they were treating the Jewish people, and with no mercy. Lt Aldo Raine, played by Brad Pitt, is the quintessential good old boy "redneck" that heads up the elite squad of misfits. Col. Hans Landa, played by Christopher Waltz, is Raine's counterpart and nemesis on the Nazi side. The third main character of the film, Shoshanna Dreyfus, played by Mélanie Laurent, is a Jewish girl that escapes from Col. Landa's murderous grasp.
Each part of the movie is broken down into chapters, like many of Tarantino's previous movies, e.g. Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Four Rooms. Each chapter in the movie has its own sub plot and main characters that brings the entire story of the movie together. While most of the chapters have one of the three main characters, there is a scene that takes place in a basement bar that adds some supporting roles to the story. Lt. Archie Hicox, played by Michael Fassbender, and Bridget von Hammersmark, played by Diane Kruger, are the main characters in the basement scene that carry over to the end of the movie.
One of the ways you can tell that this is a Tarantino movie is by the dramatic sounds that occur throughout the movie. In each of the scenes while people are talking you do not hear any other background noise or music. During the scenes where there is only conversation occurring, it's almost a dead silence around the actors, which in turn assists in the build up of the climactic ending of the chapter. When we do get to the dramatic and violent scenes, the music and sound effects are almost overpowering and very loud, which takes you from one extreme to the other.
This film, Inglourious Basterds, is yet another Tarantino masterpiece that does not disappoint. He is able to take an extremely sensitive subject from history and rewrite it to tell a story about how things should have gone. Inglourious Basterds is both an entertaining and satirical movie.