Inglorious Basterds

Quentin Tarantino combines two main story treads, firstly a young Jewish girl whose family is killed escapes and runs a cinema in Paris. Secondly a group of American soldiers secretly dropped into occupied France to hunt down Nazi's, as an American style apache unit killing and scalping called Inglorious Basterds. Both treads integrate around the aforementioned Paris cinema for the final third of the Film.

'Inglorious Basterds', can be seen as a comic book take on the World War 2 movie. Along the lines of the 'commando' comics books of the 50's.

This is no 'Where Eagles Dare', or 'The Longest Day'.

Off the back of the terrible Death proof and the over blown Kill Bill films, the distant memory of the back to back brilliance of Dogs, Fiction and Brown, seemed a long time ago.

Still Inglorious does show the former brilliance of Tarantino as both a writer and director, evident in the striking opening twenty minutes (chapter 1), a great opening statement, that introduces the standout performance of Christoph Waltz, great script and trademark Quentin its more than a nod to pulp fiction's Ezekiel scene in the block of flats.

Also note the western influences which Inglourious seems to want to follow, though out this scene and many others.
Another plus point is the bar scene with witty dialogue and ultra violence to cap off.

Still despite its length Inglorious Basterds does seem to run like a director getting back to his best form.There is still alot of over blown stuff here, and bad casting, including Eli Roth given a silly character to play out and a dire performance, and a just bizarre Mike Myers choice. Brad Pitt is all over the place as a performance and a character also.

Still overall, bravo to the best opening scene of any film in years, and overall an up and down but still entertaining come back. The king film geek director is back...