Oh, My God! They Killed Kenny!Inglourious Basterds
Score: 6,5
Tarantino is one of my favorite current directors. Besides the main theme war/holocaust has already bored me, it was no sacrifice to watch his new production. I knew that he would come up with an interesting way to talk about the subject. And I wasn’t wrong. He defined it as a spaghetti western with a World War II iconography. The film is really interesting and the stories catch our attentions. We barely feel the two hours and a half pass by. So you may ask why my score was kinda low. Ok, there’s an explanation. I will talk about it. Follow me!
Well, the picture has two different stories that cross and finally meet at one point. Let’s get acquainted to them:#1 – At the Nazi occupied France a Jew family is hidden in one farm in the countryside, but they’re found by the German Jew-hunter Hans Landa, that Tarantino wanted to be played by Leonardo DiCaprio. I really like him, I believe he’s a great actor, but I wonder how it would be Leo speaking German, French and Italian... The role was played by Austrian actor Christoph Waltz, who won the best actor prize at Cannes. Anyway, just one girl escaped. Sometime later she’s in Paris using the name Emmanuelle Mimieux as an alias, owns a movie theater, and is desired by a German soldier, played by Daniel Brühl, that kid from Goodbye Lenin, and in a way he forces her to host at her movie theater the launch of a Nazi picture, with the presence of important Nazi authorities, including Hitler.
#2 – An alternative army called Inglourious Basterds and lead by Brad Pitt hunts scalps from Nazi Germans. These scenes are really, really pleasant… They have several allies including Frenchmen, Americans, Englishmen and a famous German actress played by Diane Kruger, who played also Helena in Troy and reminded me of Demi Moore. But I knew it wasn’t her… Tarantino wanted Nastassja Kinski for this role at first. With Diane’s help, they try to create a plan to kill Hitler in the Nazi movie premiere and win the war.
Despite the stories be completely untrue and do not portray the real facts that happened during the period, they are interesting. You might still be asking about the score… Ok. I believe this is the movie with more ups and downs that I have ever seen. The credits in the very beginning are extremely boring. And they last forever! It’s only yellow words in a black background. After that we can see things happen and we get involved. The picture has a great sense of humour. Hilarious at some parts and it counts a lot. On the other hand there is too much violence. Tarantino’s violence obsession is beyond pathological. At least half of the cast from his movies get killed.
There are long scenes that combine black comedy and thriller. They are awesome. One of the best of the whole picture is the one at a tavern, but I actually didn’t like the ending of it. The whole cast is superb. The Austrian actor won the best actor prize but the one who got my attention was Brad Pitt. Besides becoming an underestimated actor for being an extremely attractive man, he always proved to me he was a good actor since Thelma and Louise and The Twelve Monkeys. He’s one of the few Hollywood actors who did three great performances in a row. Burn After Reading, Benjamin Button and this one. Three completely different roles, but just like Burn After Reading, he shows here all his comedy skills.
Diane also surprised me. I didn’t know she was that good. I only saw her in Troy, and I don’t remember seen her acting ever since. I also want to see more from her boyfriend, Joshua Jackson from Dawson’s Creek. He was the best actor in the bunch along with Michelle Williams. But the picture loses all the humor in its last third part, and that really bothered me. Tarantino exaggerated in his already famous sadism and I couldn’t laugh this time. It was really over the top. I guess that's why it wasn’t really well received in Cannes, so he changed the edition before releasing it on theaters. But even so I couldn’t appreciate it very much. I would like to see the first version to find out the improvements. If there were any… 
awesome. ;)
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