Inglorious Basterds (2009)

I haven't updated this blog for a long time now, and with the number of movies I have watched since then I think Inglorious Basterds needs to be reviewed. According to Wikipedia, it is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells the fictional story of two plots to assassinate the Nazi Germany political leadership, one planned by a young French Jewish cinema proprietor (Laurent), and the other by a team of Jewish Allied soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt).

Certainly, this film is not my genre but when I heard that it was worth watching and Diane Kruger was in the movie,  it went straightly to my movie list and took me months before watching it and earlier I did. From the very beginning I have no idea what was the movie about, I never did watch the trailer which I usually do. 


The movie did revolve with Jewish vengeance from the Nazis. Christopher Waltz portraying as Colonel Hans Landa did crack me up. I didn't doubt he won awards from this movie. On the other note, he looks a little like Tom Felton.

Col. Hans Landa

The movie exploited the Nazi's cruelty to the Jews. If you don't have a strong stomach then this movie is not for you. I have to cover my eyes in some scenes. 

Lt. Aldo Raine (I wonder where he got that scar on his neck)

Shosanna (Melanie Laurent) and Frederick Zoller (Daniel Bruhl)

There were two plots made to kill the big names in the German military and I must say that the plan of Shosanna, the Jew once hunted by Col. Landa, was a bit of a fluke. Her knowing Frederick Zoller which happened to be a Nation's Pride for killing a number of people in a tower with a 360 degree view of the city only happens in the movie. While for Lt. Aldo Raine or much known as Aldo the Apache, the leader of the Inglorious Basterds, pretty much believable. Brad Pitt's accent was a odd and he always do the annoying facial expression.

Lt. Aldo (Brad Pitt) work of art. Something you can't remove.

Torture. Donowitz (Eli Roth) with his bat.

The scalping of was the grossest in the movie that I can't even look at it as well as the batting of Donowitz (Bear Hunter) was just too cruel. 

Bridget Van Hammersmark (Diane Kruger)

Diane Kruger (right) Damn! Seriously. Brad Pitt (left) Ouch!

Bridget Van Hammersmark, Diane Kruger aged, I can't even see the resemblance of the beauty that wrecked a thousand of ships. Anyways, she did well. In the scene where she was shot on her left leg from the pub where they were supposed to talk about the Operation Kino (Plot #2), I can really feel the pain when Lt. Aldo pressed down the bullet on her leg (ouch!). She needs a big movie breakout because I know that she'll do great :).


Operation Kino. Frederick Zoller's attitude was kind of confusing to me. He flinched watching his movie killing a lot of people and when he was about to reconcile to Shosanna, he suddenly changed attitude when Shosanna told her to go away. It showed the temper of a military man of the German army. 

The blood looked like flower petals burst from her.

Jewish Vengeance.

It's entertaining, comical, not purely killing and cruelty. You'd be more interested with the war in the 1940s, the Jews, Hitler's reign and what happened back then. Although the movie used fictitious characters, it represented what needs to be represented. If you haven't watched it yet, well you should spare your two and a half hour for this movie. Well spent.