Inglourious Basterds (R16)
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As is often the case, the villain steals the show in Quentin Tarantino's spaghetti western war fantasy revenge tale.
He's a Nazi named Colonel Landa (Christoph Waltz), evil with a smiling face, polite manners and a purring voice.
He's one of three main characters – the other two being US Army Lieutenant Aldo Raine (a hillbilly-talking Brad Pitt), who's recruited a Dirty Dozen-style guerrilla squad of mainly vengeful Jewish soldiers, nicknamed the misspelt title, to kill Nazis, and a young Jewish woman (Melanie Laurent) who plots to wipe out the German high command at a premiere screening at a Paris cinema.
There are outbursts of brutal violence, but the glue holding the screenplay together is Tarantino's trademark extended dialogue – not idle conversational patter but life-and-death interrogations of increasing intensity.
Overall, it's a fanciful, wishful-thinking tale and an entertaining return to form for Tarantino.
- © Fairfax NZ News
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