Inglourious Basterds is the latest offering from cult film director Quentin Tarantino. The film clocks in at 2 hours 33 minutes and it’s quite slow moving, for a Tarantino film, and can at times feel dragged out.
The Basterds are a group of rogue Americans, and one AWOL German who travel incognito unleashing violent fury on the Nazis, and branding the few that they allow to live. It’s hard to say if Brad Pitt was the right choice for his role, at times he suited the characterisation but at other times he just sounded ridiculous. Maybe that’s what he was going for…
The movie doesn’t claim to be factually correct in any part of the story telling. There are a lot of dialogue scenes, which gives you the dragged out feeling and very few of the bloody, violent murders that have put Tarantino on the movie map. In saying that, when those scenes do come up they are Tarantino to a T, excuse the pun. They’re just about enough to keep you watching through the weighty dialogue scenes.
By Trish Keenan.
