As a QT fan--I say give this one a miss

Rating: 1/10 (3 January 2010)

I'm a big time QT fan, especially of his now classics such as Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. Kill Bill was downright awesome. Reservoir Dogs was brutal and amazing. The minute I saw his name on a movie, I knew I was in for something gutsy and cool.
Except for this one. Oh well, I guess even QT can suffer a misfire.
The long dialogs between characters were boring and did nothing to advance the plot. There were times during these long winded expositions and scenes that went nowhere that I felt like I was watching a made for TV mini-series rather than a QT flick (Winds Of War, anyone?).
I dunno, it just had a lot of the same old crap humming through it, with little substance behind it. People are brutally killed. War sucks. Psychopaths like killing people. Hitler sucks. Nazis suck. Blah, blah, blah. Homage to older movies. Lookit me, ma, I'm making a WWII movie! *sigh* Maybe it was the setting that was the problem--QT does well with eras from the seventies and onward, but I couldn't help but feel his tackling of the WWII era was forced and uncomfortable for him. The worst part is that it shows.
Brad Pitt's performance was downright awful. If the film was more comedic in scope, his overdone accent would have worked, but as it was he looked like a cartoon character stuck into a serious drama. Uneven and all over the map, just like the rest of this film.