Movie Review: INGLORIOUS BASTERDS

Quentin Tarantino is back with the story of secret Nazi killing Americans. You've all seen the preview, so we'll just get into my thoughts.

I love Tarantino movies. They are fun and usually full of character and heart. Inglorious Bastards is fun. And it has a message. I really liked it and need to see it again.

Because I really feel like I was missing something.

The movie hinges on a HUGE coincidence, which I felt was easy enough to be explained away, but as far as I can tell it never is. The coincidence was enough to take me out of the film several times.

However, everything else works about the film. It's compelling, it's shocking, and it's a lot of fun. Brad Pitt is great, as is Christoph Waltz.

And Melanie Laurent is great too, in a role that needed more meat. Her character is at the crux of the film, but is not given enough time for us to mine the character depth out of her needed to get rid of the coincidences.

Tarantino does a good job of trying to villainize the audience for enjoying the violence in the movie as well.

It just strikes me that, for this film, QT became more interested in the crafting of scenes than the crafting of an entire story. He tries as always to combine genres--war movie, western, James Bond/spy story, female revenge story--but this time forgets to tie everything together neatly.


It's a good movie. Probably the best movie I've seen this summer.

And perhaps I just blinked when the coincidences were explained. I did have an issue with my phone that needed to be taken care of. (I was the only one in the theater, so don't get on me for rudeness.)

But it doesn't match up well with Kill Bill (esp. Vol 2) or Jackie Brown, which both had depth of character.