Cast: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent & Christoph Waltz
Director: Quntin Tarantino
Rating:
Enetertainment Quotient: 70%
Genre: War
Runtime: 153 min
MPAA rating: Rated R for strong graphic violence, language and brief sexuality.

Synopsis:
Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) escapes from it when Germans slaughter her Jewish family in Nazi occupied France. Later she changes her identity and becomes the owner of a cinema hall. A war hero of Germany falls in love with her and he insists that a movie made on his life story should be premiered in her cinema hall. There is a group of guerrilla soldiers of American-Jewish background called 'Inglorious Basterds' who take up the mission of assassinating all top brass Nazi leaders. The high profile premiere that is being attended by big leaders of Nazi attracts their attantion. The rest of the story is all about if they could successfully blow up the theater or not.

What I liked in the film?
The screenplay and the direction is fabulous. The movie starts like a typical spaghetti western (The beginning chapter is shown as Once Upon A Time in Nazi Occupied France). Then the inglorious basterds and their modus-operandi is introduced. Then there is a one-sided love story between German war hero and Jewish cinema hall owner (who in turn is in love with her black colleague). The last 45 minutes of the movie takes place in the cinema hall with two parties trying to blow it up.

The director entertains us with his black humor. The climax is the clincher. Christopher Waltz is the best among the actors in this movie. He mixes odd humor with uncanny intelligence while portraying his character. Brad Pitt is at his best and his character has a bit of similarities to the one he played in 'Snatch'.

The signature of Quentin Tarantino
The signature of Quenti Tarantino is written all over the movie. The format is also akin -

1. Chapter-based narration (like Kill Bill)
2. Nicknames for all the characters (most of the characters in his movies refer other characters with nicknames)
3. Cool conversations followed by grotesque unexpected twists.
4. Excessive voilence (banging the head with a baseball bat and poking finger into a bullet wound).
5. Retro music (QT has the habit of remixing retro music as background score to key scenes in his movies (Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill)
6. Leaving somebody alive so that he would go to boss and tell what happened (like he did in the ending of Kill Bill I)

Tailpiece: If you like QT movies, you will end up immensely liking this film as well. On a whole, Inglorious Basters is an entertaining tale of kick-assing of Nazis.