The best film of 2009, Inglourious Basterds is the result of Quentin Tarantino beating World War II to death with a baseball bat. The film is violent, funny, and suspenseful, and it is ultimately a grand example that any story, in the right hands, is filmic. With three great primary characters, Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), Col. Hans “The Jew Hunter” Landa (Christoph Waltz), and Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent), Inglourious Basterds is an actor’s delight. Unlike so many movies based on historical events, in this case, the basterdization of history is admittedly obvious and not only accepted, but encouraged. It is just a movie, after all.
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