Bizarre and a wonderful fiction of alternative history

Rating: 8/10 (23 August 2009)

I went to this movie with some trepidation but seeing it well reviewed in places I trust like Big Hollywood gave me hope. Everyone has raved about the performance of Christoph Waltz; it is deserved. He plays the stereotypical SS officer to the hilt. Evil with death imminent but so polite and courteous.
Like Kill Bill I found myself laughing in places my mind was telling me I shouldn't be laughing. But I wasn't alone with most of the audience laughing.
I felt the middle the movie was a bit slow - but don't wish to give examples and spoilers so you be the judge - but all in all a thoroughly enjoyable movie and one whose ending was an alternative history and given the pure evil of Nazi ideology one could only say "if only"...
I can also say that this is the first Brad Pitt movie that I have enjoyed.
Because of all the graphic violence, it's not a movie I would take small children to, though.