This film is not what it seems.

Rating: 10/10 (15 August 2009)

Slight spoilers.
From the trailers, this looked like a fun, nazi killin' romp. This is dead wrong.
Tarantino here has proved himself as the most literate, smart and clever film maker since Kubrick and the french nouvelle vague. Outside of those two institutions I have never seen a film which has known it's audience so well as to be able to make fun of them, even going as far as to compare them to Hitler. It's not a film about Brad Pitt scalpin' Nazis.
It's a film about us, watching nazi's getting scalped.
This became apparently in the fact that whenever Eli Roth or any other killed a nazi in the movie, people laughed, wooped or clapped. This was okay.
Yet when Hitler woops, laughs and claps at a nazi killing allies, whilst watching a nazi produced movie, he is evil.
In the past the man has been accused of being transparent and using violence as a method to make his films appeal more. However in this he has dissected his method, reasons and audience's reaction perfectly. Less Tarantino and more Peckinpah in his approach, we see what really results from violence.
A very tense, entertaining and funny film from QT. His best, Best I've seen this year and the smartest since A Clockwork Orange. Absolutely staggering.
It was only upon leaving the cinema that I realised, it wasn't just Brad Pitt who was the inglourious basterd. It was everyone who laughed along with him, everyone who wooped for a nazi getting scalped and shot and beaten. Tarantino knows films. Audiences, expectations, everything. A perfect film.