Inglourious Basterds – 3

You don’t go to a Warhol exhibition expecting to see a Vermeer or a Rembrandt, but you don’t expect to find only a Jeff Koons, either. Quentin Tarantino obviously has all the techniques of moviemaking at his disposal, but he failed to engage me emotionally or intellectually, and for every gripping scene there was a plot inconsistency that left me puzzled or, worse, annoyed. Casting the Marx Bros. as a Nazi-scalping squad was repulsive, but casting Brad Pitt as their leader was just a mistake.  If Tarantino wants to play in his cinematic fantasyland, fine, but I’d just as soon he, and Roberto Benigni, leave the Holocaust out of it.

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