Inglourious Basterds war movie

Inglourious Basterds (2009, United States)

Categories: infantry movies resistance movies

Inglourious Basterds

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Czas: 150 minut

Laguages: German / English / French

war movies infoAdam 'Frey' Barczynski
2024-04-07 / 1970-01-01

American commando group plans to kill Hitler and several high level officers while they attend the movie premiere in Paris.

Secret group of soldiers, called Inglourious Basterds, operating as commando behind enemy lines, attack and kill German officers wherever and whenever they can. Their fame, or rather infamy, is spread among the Germans that try to locate and kill them, especially since Basterds murder the Nazi soldiers in barbaric ways, even scalp some of them. Nazis plan to organize official premiere of new movie "Pride of the Nation", in one of the Paris cinemas. Film glorifies their brave soldiers and this is perfect opportunity for Lieutenant Aldo Raine and his basterds to strike when many officers will be gathered in one building.

Just like with other Tarantino movies you could expect Inglourious Basterds to be action flick rather than actual war movie. And it isn’t far from the truth if there would be actual action in this movie. There are dialogues, long dialogues, very long dialogues, very very long dialogues and few almost decent scenes that were ruined by Tarantino’s fascination in senseless violence. What a pity he isn’t fascinated by interesting stories or building characters.

It is over 2 hours of dialogues and monologues with underlining of rather poor over-the-top acting (especially surprising from Brad Pitt), straight-from-comic-book characters and plot that could last about 15-20 minutes if the boring bits would be cut out. Italian war movies from 1970s and 1980s had the same level of truth, realism and acting, but obviously without name Tarantino in credits they were class B flicks, while this is considered a masterpiece... Strange world we live in.

Our rating

3.2

Film value

3 / 10

Realism factor

1 / 5

Adventure factor

3 / 5

Historical accuracy

1 / 5

2024-04-07