Lovely Movie - Amazing Christoph

Rating: 9/10 (17 February 2010)

This is a wonderful WWII movie Quentin style. He likes to think of it as a spaghetti western more than a war movie. I loved the Mexican standoff which happens somewhere in the middle of the movie.
I absolutely fell in love with Christoph Waltz as much as I was filled with hatred for Christoph's character Col. Hans Landa! What a devilishly delightful character! The whole movie was just a show case for Christoph Waltz. Hope he gets an Oscar. Quentin said that this was the "greatest and most complex characters" ever written by him, I would go on to say that this is one of the best characters I have seen in entire history of cinema, period!
Another great performance was by Diane Kruger who played the character of a big German Actress. I did not see a single glimpse of Kruger in her character in the entire film.
Brad Pitt was OK. So was the rest of the crew. And that's what kind of brings down the overall acting ratings for the movie despite Christoph and Diane.
I felt that Martin Wuttke portrayed Hitler with a slight animated touch, almost to the point of comedy. Don't know if Quentin intended that. It was almost like Rick Moranis's Darth Vader spoof in Mel Brook's Space Balls.
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Now, here's what I would have changed if I was in control.
* A really small observation and change, Landa says towards the end of the movie that "you would need to kill all four, Hitler, Bormann, Goebbles and Goering to end the war". Now I don't think the head of propaganda, Goebbles would have been able to keep WWII going after Hitler and others were removed. But that's a really fine point. * I would have saved one of the leading ladies, probably Shoshanna. * Made Hitler's portrayal less animated and a little bit more serious. Quite, with almost no dialogues.
This review was originally copied from my blog: http://roundhayreview.blogspot.com/2010/01/over-all-rating-4.html