I wasn't too excited about this movie after Tarantino's flop with "Deathproof". "Inglorious Basterds" proved me wrong and proved why even though Tarantino is just human and can fuck up, he can still make good movies and is perhaps still one of the most unique directors now a days. His firm grasp on entertaining and powerful scriptwriting and photography is displayed in a grand manner and by the gallons. The movie started with a black screen, the trademark Tarantino font used in Pulp Fiction, and a good song, and I knew right away that Tarantino wasnt going to dissapoint, in fact I might have been salivating (there's something to the opening credits in a Tarantino movie that is always so EPIC).
Quentin focused on his strengths for this film; fast action shoot-outs, humor in the midst of violence, amazing usage of music and dialogue as foreshadow, etc. The acting is superb, Brad Pitt, even though in my opinion a not very consistent actor, impresses everytime he is set in a relatively light-hearted character and he is actually funny and likable as Lt.Rain.
The plot miniutae is rather non-important (for the review's sake, I dont want to give the plot's details away, plus if the trailer is seen it gives a pretty good idea of what it is) for its really a typical Tarantino plot, except this time its actually in chronological order. Though a simple story of lets try to kill as many nazis as we can is at hand (the theme is revenge, again nothing new with Tarantino, but something he can do well),the pace of the story and the obvious self-consciousness of how ridiculous the movie gets adds an ironic, comical feel to it. The audience, or at least the audience familiar with his work should notice this ironic feel to the movie, and that Tarantino finally doesn't take himself as seriously as he used to. Maybe thats why Death Proof wasnt that good, because in that movie he is trying to make a good movie with less than half the amount of time his movies usually last. On the other hand, "Basterds" finds a mature Tarantino that knows has nothing more to prove as a director, and it shows in the light-hearted comical scenes that he achieves with the help of the excellent acting. All the actors, no matter how minimal the role was incredibly well cast, but there should be a special mention to Christoph Waltz, the guy that plays the German Nazi detective more than well.
