"I must say, damn good stuff, Sir." and probably Tarantino's best since Pulp Fiction

Rating: 10/10 (10 October 2009)

Roger Ebert, after seeing Inglourious Basterds at the Cannes Film Festival back in this year's May, pointed out the originality of Tarantino's latest picture. He mentioned certain elements of the movie and pointed out that he didn't recall another war movie with those certain elements ("Inglorious Basterds is, I believe, the only war movie with its climactic scene set in a movie theater. The only war movie with a critical last-minute confrontation in the projection booth. The only war movie with a lecture on the fire hazard of nitrate film stock. The only one that pays much attention to the names of such great directors as Pabst and Clouzot"), of course in reference to the fact that Quentin always takes stuff from other movies and has many critics because of that fact ("Quentin Tarantino is sometimes criticized for including too many references, some say whole scenes from other movies in his own work"). Of course I'm not like Ebert (I can't even write pretty well in English! Hell, I'm certainly more like Aldo the Apache, the basterd played by Brad Pitt, pretending to speak Italian!), I have seen few war movies but still I can add that to see Adolf Hitler asking to his men for a bubble gum you will have to check out Inglourious Basterds!
But of course there's more, there's more that make of this a really magnificent fun time at the movies. It's a 153 minutes movie but believe me it feels like a 90 minutes one. It moves fast sometimes (mostly thanks to the basterds, the group of American soldiers that have been terrorizing the Nazis) but it is a movie with "slow" scenes but it's a movie without a second of boredom, it's a movie where the "slow" scenes grabs you and make time pass as fast as possible. Divided in 5 chapters Tarantino's movie isn't like Enzo G. Castellari's one from 1978 (Quel maledetto treno blindato, better known as The Inglorious Bastards). Here we have a clear mission for everybody in the not-Nazi side and all the pieces will get together in order to have a German night in Paris, a night for the latest piece of Nazi propaganda, a precious chance to end with the war.
I will bring QT's previous picture, his half of Grindhouse Death Proof, to this comment and no I'm not one of those many that hated Death Proof, actually I loved it but definitely there's only one really cool character to remember (well maybe two thanks to the amazing Zoë Bell). Boy, Inglourious Basterds has lots of truly memorable characters, of course the acting is brilliant, of course is just fascinating to watch all of these characters.