At the Movies with Fatwayne

This movie has Quentin Taratino’s mark all over it! The movie is served up in chapters much like the Kill Bill movies. It is also funny and violent at the same time and you may get the feeling that it is coming at you from out of right field. One thing for sure, if you depend on this film in order to pass an exam on WW11 history, you will not get a passing grade thanks to writer/director Tarantino’s revisionism.

This is a tale of a group of Jewish American soldiers led by a part American Indian officer from Tennessee. This role is aptly played by none other than Brad Pitt with a particularly onerous and fake southern accent. His character’s name is Lt. Aldo Raine. Raine recruits his Nazi hating men and tells them that each one owes him 100 Nazi scalps! Yep, they not only kill them but scalp them as well and sometimes let them go if it suits their agenda but not before carving a swastika on their foreheads! I told you that this was a Tarantino movie!

The chapters all sort of come together linking the movie’s principal character’s fates together. Sometimes their fate is quick and brutely depicted so that you can never be sure who will survive and who will not.

I enjoyed the acting of Christolph Waltz (Colonel Hans Landa) as the smooth as silk Nazi officer in charge of routing out the hiding Jews. He is so sophisticated yet so conniving and evil. He will make you despise him. Diane Jruger is charming as the German film star, Bridget von Hammersmark, turned British spy and aid to the Allies’ cause. There are several other memorable portrayals in this well acted offering.

The plot, while sometimes over the top, produced lots of tension with much of the lengthy conversation leading up to moments of sheer terror and graphic violence. It is a very good war movie and if you can stand the gore you should have one heck of a “bang up” time.

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Rated – R -

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