Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger

In German-occupied France, Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity ...( read more  read more... )as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget Von Hammersmark on a mission to take down the leaders of The Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquee, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own...

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R, 2 hrs. 32 min.

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino

Release Date: August 21, 2009

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  • November 4, 2009
    Beyond bad. Not even much fun to poke out of it. Mélanie Laurent's great however.
  • November 3, 2009
    Inglourious Basterds disappointed me more so than any film in recent memory. This was mainly because, as individual scenes, the film is fantastic. There's no faulting the cinematography, demonstrating Tarantino's best use of colour and lighting. The dialogue is wildly enthralling...( read more) as you might expect. The action scenes are short and brutal, and the acting is very impressive. Most notable is Christoph Waltz, in one of the best performances of all time. He makes a slimy, vicious Nazi, the most likable and charismatic person on screen.

    The main fault of the film is it's complete lack of focus. It's hard to believe that Tarantino has been working on this for 10 years, because it certainly seems like he has adapted a first draft. Plots run parallel, often with the same goal, but never, cohesively, fit together. There's no main character, to take us on a journey or relate to, and the time jumps seem to skip over the most interesting parts of the story. Tarantino just shoves moments in, wherever he feels like. On the arrival of Hugo Stiglitz, we are treated to his name in big bold letters, filling the screen. When, out of nowhere, Samuel L. Jackson is suddenly a narrator explaining Hugo's backstory, something that should have played out in traditional narrative style. This backstory becomes pointless as Stiglitz is simply wasted. As are many characters. People come, people go, the film ends forgetting half of the cast.

    Tarantino seems too obsessed with making "Tarantino" films. He could have sacrificed the whole story about a sole survivor of a family massacre, especially since he did it in Kill Bill. He could have told the story of the Basterds, which he may do in a rumored prequel.

    When it was all over, I felt as though I had watched selected scenes from a 9 hour trilogy of films. Yes, I want more, but this film should have been much less.
  • October 30, 2009
    What do you get when you put Quentin Tarantino and Nazi Germany together? Will you get an epic story of redemption or a classic retelling of a familial story with lots of strings, tear-jerker moments and happy endings? Hell no! Your final product will inevitably be what Tarantino...( read more) serves up in Inglourious Basterds: a riotous, unashamedly politically--and historically--incorrect version of events. But you'll have a hell of a time watching a history so alternate; so ridiculously twisted that a part of you will actually be hoping that things could be so fantastically awesome in real life. Payback never tasted this good!

    In Nazi-occupied Paris, many things are the way we've come to know them from our old textbooks: German patrols were branched throughout the land and injustice was the name the game. Jews and other so-called degenerates were being rounded up by the train-ful and people were being silenced throughout the whole of Europe.

    But in Tarantino's Nazi-occupied Paris, a band of "inglourious basterds" (a small group of rogue American soldiers)are hunting down the self-righteous Aryan scum and giving them a taste of their own medicine. This tiny crew of savage beasts are making quite a dent on the German military and their reputations precede them. Their acts of retribution against evil are the topics of tavern-conversation and the words on everyone's lips. Each one has even acquired a nickname worthy of any folkloric or mythical figure.

    Their visceral hunger for revenge is portrayed on film quite graphically and with great zest. This is completely thanks to Tarantino's unmatched eye for seeing things from a place so honest it becomes heightened. The events that transpire in this movie are reflections of what many people wish could have actually happened but are too PC to admit to. Tarantino is unapologetic in his stance as a Nazi hater and goes as far as likening them to savage Indians on a murderous spree--the likes of which America's own pioneers had to face on the landscape as they made their way across the U.S. plains. Let's just say that scalping is back in style...

    Brad Pitt does a fine job as the leader of this rag-tag team of murderous bastards. His all-American image is perfect for this character yet it is slightly tarnished by the appearance that this guy's been in one-too-many fights and has been all but killed in the process. He's suave and collected; but also vicious and a hell-raiser. In short, he's an American. And his partners are made of the same fabric as he.

    If you're going for a history lesson, skip this altogether. If you're going for a kick-ass Tarantino experience, watch this repeatedly. If you're on the fence about it, make up your mind quickly before you're too late to form an opinion about the movie one way or the other--because this movie is definitely worth having an opinion about. That's true whether you end up loving it or hating it.
  • October 29, 2009
    By far, the greatest movie experience I've ever had.

    Breathtaking, that's the word for it.
  • October 28, 2009
    Another Tarantino classic. Christoph Waltz is almost guaranteed to win the best supporting oscar this year for his movie stealing role as the 'jew hunter'.
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  • November 7, 2009
    durasi panjang ternyata ga berasa. terhibur banget sm film buatan quentin tarantino ini.
  • November 6, 2009
    one of the best of tarantino, and that's saying a lot, amazing acting, great soundtrack (as always), has tarantino's trademark all the way; very good use of the 3 different languages and a lot of memorable scenes, YOU MUST see this
  • November 6, 2009
    Watch this movie for free for those of you that are short on money at http://MoviesWatch.info But if you can afford it go to the theaters and support the movies
  • November 6, 2009
    Very entertaining, well shot. Saw it in theaters will need a rewatch.

Critic Reviews


August 21, 2009
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

I'm tempted to say Tarantino has done it again, but I doubt anyone has ever done anything like his dazzlingly original World War II movie, Inglourious Basterds. full review

August 21, 2009
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Will Basterds polarize audiences? That's a given. But for anyone professing true movie love, there's no resisting it. full review

August 21, 2009
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

The picture contains all the things his fans like about Tarantino -- the wit, the audacity, the sudden violence -- but this movie's emotional core and bigness of spirit are new. full review

August 21, 2009
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times

Whirled around the floor of a story that goes absolutely nowhere, contains no human verities, has no significant heft as historical drama, yet still proves, now and then, an entertaining piece of Pop ... full review

August 21, 2009
Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com

Amongst all the filmmakers working today, no one inspires more passionate discussion, debate and analysis than Quentin Tarantino. full review

August 20, 2009
Claudia Puig, USA Today

The outcome is gory and glorious. full review

August 20, 2009
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Inglorious Basterds is an entertainment but an uneasy one; it represents 153 minutes of bravura stalling, after which its creator loses interest and walks away. full review

August 20, 2009
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

Tonally schizoid and rife with anachronisms (a David Bowie song on the sound track, out-of-era vernacular), Tarantino's Third Reich folly is utterly exasperating. full review

August 20, 2009
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

Something close to an ideal Tarantino flick, an impertinent and often tasteless epic that rewrites WII history as a fairy tale for gonzo genre kicks. full review

August 20, 2009
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a big, bold, audacious war movie that will annoy some, startle others and demonstrate once again that he's the real thing, a director of quixotic delights. full review

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Comments


  • shivusharma87
    October 20, 2009
    it,s a very hooror
  • SJMJ91
    August 30, 2009
    Inglourious Basterds truly reveals Quentin's love for cinema!
  • hussnainsyedd
    August 30, 2009
    Friendship is not a game to play, It is not a word to say, It doesn't start on March and ends on May, It is tomorrow, yesterday, today and everyday.
  • dsoul
    August 29, 2009
    Inglourious Basterds takes a genre, which you no doubt know so well as there are so many different war movies and does something new and original with it. Tarantino fakes right and he goes left, fakes left and goes right, just when you think you have a pattern figured out he does something completely different. Thats what this fairy-tale is all about. Taking what you know and making it funny, violent and dramatic. Awesome movie.
  • drblood
    August 25, 2009
    This was the worst movie from any genre that I've ever watched. Even those handycam movies shot in somebody's back garden with a bunch of beer guzzling friends are better than this dreck. Yeah, like all America needs right now is another film that makes a mockery out of history and let's them think that they were solely responsible for winning WWII. As if they were even there in the first place! Utter crap from start to finish.
  • ilikemydinohead
    August 23, 2009
    lol, i pronounce it inn-glow-ree-us bass-turds.

    i'd like to watch this movie :O
  • jtjewels1
    August 20, 2009
    I'm going to see it this weekend! XD
  • lahaie4
    June 10, 2009
    August 21 semms so far...I must see Inglourious basterds NOW.
  • Rossjm
    February 14, 2009
    You know what? I thunk Mike Myers might pleasently surprise us. He is good in some of his earlier comic roles (Austin Powers for example) and maybe he can pull of serious. But knowing Tarantino, he will probably be given a funny character, as most of his films have one.

    And I can't wait to see Cloris Leachman. She was excellent in the Mel Brooks spoofs and was good in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock presents.
  • itbegins2005
    September 14, 2008
    I just have one question:

    Mike Myers?

    Really?

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