thank you QT

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2009)

I don't know where to start.. I watched this at home, alone, with few beers to help. Not that this movie needs any help. The starting sequence only, where this sadistic jew hunter continues his extremely polite manner of speech, audience surely knows something is wrong but just not what. After some very prolonged, nuaced dialogue I was ready to scream 'Oh my God, get on with it already!'. In a positive way of course. The tension is unbearable, and special thanks must be said to Christoph Waltz, actor I have never heard of before but whose performance is absolutely magnificent.
The violence is there of course, as this is QT movie, but most of the time we spend waiting for it to happen, for example, when the opposition members unfortunately end up sitting in same bar and table with way too many Nazis in a bar where there was not supposed to be any. Discussion goes on and on, German major interrogating couple of our protagonists in most on-surface-polite manner, until the inevitable, or unfortunate error happens and all hell breaks loose.
Someone already mentioned the great camera-work.. yes! I never consciously realized there actually must have been camera somewhere, nor started to think about specific angles, cutting or anything like that, which happens to me often when watching movies, it is all done in very beautifully fluent way.
The beautiful is there of course. Especially must be noted Mélanie Laurent in theatre, while the most unexpected but perfectly fitting Bowie song plays.. this is the showdown, underlined.
The humour is there of course :) Especially I could not stop laughing in the last minutes of the movie, where Tarantino decided, not caring the least of historical facts (what 'facts'? say what?) to execute just a few Nazis, not just burning them, but also shooting same time with machine gun and blowing them up with explosives.
Also, I think its important to mention that here now are some clichés of the evil Nazis broken for good. No more glass-wearing evil interrogators from the 70s or so, now we have a person fully fluent in English, french and Italian, eloquent, well-mannered, and at the same time totally ruthless. We see other intelligent, charming Nazis that turn out just as brutal. We see German soldiers, who are just having a drink you can't but symphatize, ending in a shootout that leaves barely no one alive. And most important, the Nazis are not anymore the force to be feared, here they are in fear of some very aggressive, native American leaded force. I find this all very refreshing.
I could go on and on.. but need to end this haphazard homage at some point. Be it here. I will watch this again, and recommend to everyone I meet.