Don't believe the hype

Rating: 8/10 (9 September 2009)

Some of you reading this may think I'm contradicting myself with my title and my rating, but do keep in mind that while I'm writing this the average weighted vote of every IMDb user who has seen this is 8.6/10 thus placing it in the top 50 of all major films of all time. Let me just say that I did enjoy this film quite a bit. If movies like this were nominated for Academy Awards Brad Pitt should be the frontrunner for best actor. The rest of the cast did a tremendous job as well and the story was good enough to keep me enthralled throughout the entire 2 1/2 hours of the film. That said, the reason I tell you don't believe the hype is that this movie tries to be too many different things at once. It doesn't give the audience enough of one or the other to really satisfy/sell them on whether this should be a comedy or an action film. If you take Brad Pitt out of the picture then the movie may have one or two jokes throughout the entire film. And if you take out even just one fight scene then it could hardly be called an action movie. The story just isn't good enough to overpower those flaws to deem Inglorious Bastards as one of the greatest films of all time. To say it's better than a film like V for Vendetta or Snatch is just absurd. I mean maybe it's just me but I honestly don't think I'm alone on this. By the way I was fine with the whole "let's completely rewrite history and kill Hitler" thing. I thought it was pretty cool actually.