(Just Another) Inglourious Movee

Saw The Inglourious Basterds yesterday. What a crappy movie!! I mean, what's wrong with Quentin Tarantino, post Kill Bill? No spoilers here, but its a kind of story we all wish we could do in reality - as an Indian, I would so wish we had a crack team of vigilante type commandos killing Aurangzeb or some of the terrible tyrants that ruled us. So much for wishful thinking, but wtf? A movie that shows the clinical, ruthless Nazis and Gestapos as clumsy duds who could not wipe out a rag-tag team of American soldiers? While its true that there were some serious security breaches during the final years of the Reich, they were carried out by some of the most trusted members of such organizations as the SS, the Abwehr and the like. During the War years, even his close confidantes could not access Hitler - he was always in one of his hideouts such as the Wolfsschanze. And here you have him moving around as if he was a puppet despot of a banana republic or more a mafiosi. A Nazi movie - and without some samples of their atrocities? Not done. You cannot help but think of the Nazi's as bumbling fools.

But Christoph Waltz is such a fine actor. Wow! The whole movie hinged on his character and he played it to the T, as Tarantino himself admitted. Diane Kruger looked strange - quite old, but could have been the make-up. Brad Pitt's role was fairly small. It is basically Waltz's movie through and through...hmm, a damp squib. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone.