I bought into the standard Tarantino hype and checked out Inglorious Basterds on Friday. I was impressed, or in complete awe more accurately, by the performance of Christopher Waltz as a sadistic Colonel in the German SS. He effortlessly switches between languages, German, French, English, then finally Italian to show off. He is the star of the film and probably commands the most screen time. Everyone else is very good with props to Pitt, Diane Kruger, and relatively uknown by this guy Shosanna Dreyfuss. The acting is very good, the story is very interesting and doesn't attempt to be anything close to historically accurate, which plays to its benefit. It is far from an action movie, but does have BRUTAL scenes of action depicted.
It takes a Guy Ritchie approach in telling many complex stories separately before weaving it all together in climactic fashion. It's hard to be disappointed in the film, though it is very long at around 2.5 hours. It's not boring at any point, but there is a lot of storytelling to get you in tune with the characters and their stories. I'll recommend seeing it in theaters, but I doubt that you'll run out and buy the DVD.
Bottom line: 8.3ish out of 10, worth seeing once for sure.
Also I saw Rocknrolla again, a real Guy Ritchie film since its on cable now. It's a very good film that weaves a bunch of stories together, shocking I know, in a very effective manner as always. It's not as good as Snatch, the gold standard of Guy Ritchie movies, but it is worth a viewing. A lot of star power with Tom Wilkenson, Gerard Butler, Thandia Newton, Jeremy Piven, and LUDA (Chris Bridges) making appearances. Typical Ritchie gangsters get wrapped up with an ultra-rich Russian gangster and hilarity, hijinks, brutality emerge when the Russians money and lucky painting get stolen. It certainly isn't boring or hard to follow, so if you're checking out movies on-demand give it a roll of the dice.
Bottom line: 7.4 out of 10, higher if you REALLY like Guy Ritchie, or hate Madonna.
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