Inglourious Basterds

Wow... Inglourious Basterds is so amazingly awesome. I'm still blown away thinking about the final action scene. Now, Quentin Tarantino is my favorite director, and Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie I've ever seen, but I don't let my bias get in the way of how I feel about this movie. About the plot, if you are expecting to go into the movie and see 153 minutes of Americans killing Nazis I have to inform you that Inglourious Basterds is not that movie. Instead the film consists of many long scenes of that amazing Tarantino dialogue, slowly building up suspense to the final powerhouse of Nazi killing awesomeness (and I'm talking really awesome). Besides the final action scenes there is another one in a tavern that is also fantastic. I know you will probably hear this in every review of this movie but Christoph Waltz is perfect as Hans Landa, sometimes you are scared by him and sometimes he makes you laugh, sometimes he is being very pleasant but is extremely terrifying at the same time. His talent is best exemplified in the first scene of the film in which he interrogates a man hiding Jews in his house while the Jews are under the floor-boards listening, it is an amazingly intense scene yet it still involves some comedy and the way it ends up is not how you would expect it to. There is also comedy in many other moments in the film, but I'll opt not to give them away because of the sheer hilarious surprise they turn out to be. One more thing I have to mention is that this film is very gory and not for the faint of heart, but you won't find yourself feeling bad for Nazis when they are hurt because, well... they're Nazis. I'd if you are squeamish see this movie anyway and cover your eyes during the gory scenes. In comparison to Tarantino's other movies, I'd say if you had Kill Bill Volume 2 except at the end instead of facing Bill, The Bride faces a Crazy 88 of Bills in the House of Blue Leaves than it would remind me of Inglourious Basterds in the way that it is a sequence of events building up to the huge climax. This movie might be higher than 500 Days of Summer on my best films of the year so far list, but I'll have to see it a second time to confirm my suspicion (any excuse to get to experience this masterfully made epic again).
Inglourious Basterds - 4 out of 4
-Zach