During World War II, Lt. Aldo Raine leads his squad of Jewish-American soldiers behind enemy lines in Nazi occupied France. Their job is simple: kill the enemy. They also have a particularly violent approach to what they do scalping their victims. Soon they are known and feared throughout the German army. In Paris, Shosanna runs a cinema and through a chance meeting with a German war hero, is selected to host the premiere of one of Dr. Josef Goebbels propaganda film. With all of the German high command scheduled to attend – including Hitler, Goering and Martin Bormann – it seems like the ideal opportunity for Lt. Raine and his men to bring the war to a quick end. Shosanna, who is Jewish and whose parents and siblings were killed before her eyes, also has her own plans for the evening’s festivities. When she realizes that the man who killed her family Colonel Hans Landa, known as the Jew Hunter, will also be there it makes her own plans complete.
I had a lot of fun watching this movie. It gets all kinds of emotions out of. There’s a really tense 15-minute scene in the beginning of the movie where Christoph Waltz’s character is questioning an owner of a farm house who may or may not be hiding Jews under his floorboards, but then there also comes a very entertaining scene where you’re introduced to Brad Pitt’s character Lt. Aldo Raine, so, the movie’s tone goes from serious to comical to violent to comical to serious again then again to comical. When it’s handled well, it can be a very entertaining and watchable movie, and in the case of this movie, it is. It is a total blast from start to finish. The cinematography – great – a lot of shots are so well framed and coloroful! Christoph Waltz’s performance – fantastic! Totally deserved that Oscar he won! The editing and screenplay are also great!
9/10*
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Written by: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Krugher, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Mélanie Laurent
Runtime: 153 minutes
