Saturday, September 5, 2009

BEETLE'S REVIEW OF INGLOURIOUS BASTARDS

I may have spoken too soon when I said that District Nine was the best movie of the Summer...quite possibly the year, for a week after District Nine came out another film debuted that almost knocked D-9 off its feet. That film...was INGLOURIOUS BASTARDS.

The film follows a group of Americans during WW2 that have a dream: To hunt, torture, kill and scalp Nazis. The group's name is The Inglourious Bastards but are simply referred to as the Bastards thru-out the whole film. Given that the plot in itself sounds pretty bad-ass, the fact that the film is somehow able to surprise you and end up being even more bad-ass than you could have imagined was a thousand point bonus.

I had forgotten what a true quality film feels like and had gone into Bastards expecting your typical mindless action film. Let's get one thing straight here: Quentin Tarantino does not do mindless action. He rigs explosives to the big screen, attaches an amazingly well-thought out storyline, a well-written script and a cast of great actors (including Brad Pitt) to the explosives and sets the fucker to blow all over your mind. I walked out of the theatre shell-shocked and at a loss for words to describe this film.

To be fair I feel that I must point out some things that annoyed me about the film. First: It feels like Quentin trys too hard to make the Nazis unlikeable. They spit out cracks on just about every American Minority (Mainly Blacks)...even on America itself. Most Americans already hate Nazis, so it was like he was trying too hard to convince the audience of something we already know and believe.

The second thing that kind of annoyed me about the film is that even though the film is called the Inglorious Bastards the Bastards themselves are only in about 70% of the film. The rest consist of a secondary story arc about a Jewish chick named Shosanna that was able to escape the Nazis when she was younger and now hatches her own plot to destroy the whole of the Nazi army. It makes for a fairly interesting side-story but I came to see The Bastards; not some young, attractive chick grow some balls (not litterally) and come up with her own plan.

While I found these things annoying in no way did they prevent me from overall enjoying this masterpiece, and it should be the same for whoever buys a ticket to "Bastards".

In my opinion Bastards is right up there with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. It's definently a classic. I recently saw the film for a 2nd time in theatres and it was just as good as I remembered it being. When it ended I once again found myself cheering in my seat. A true testament to this films power.

Inglourious Bastards is easily one of the funnest and most guilt-free movies that's come along in a LONG time (You have no problem cheering when you watch one of the Nazi's get bludgeoned to death by a baseball bat). It's a bloody, rip-roarin good time at the movies that gives that other intelligent film D-9 a good run for it's money.

Overall "Bastards" adds up to a bad-ass time at your local theatre. Refuse to see it at your own risk.



Better than sex- 5 stars

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  3. IB was one of the more sleak, effective movies of the year. And QT came roaring back with full force...developing fascinating characters, well-paced story and the kind of mindwreck only Tarantino can provide.

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