Waltz will be unknown to most American audiences -- he was certainly unknown to me -- but he's nothing less than sensational as the silky, polyglot SS officer charged by the Fuhrer to root out the remaining Jews in France.
Inglourious Basterds
Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France...
2009 · 2h 33m · R
Drama, Thriller, War
Directed by
Quentin Jerome Presher Brosman Tarantino
Overview
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Director and cast
- Quentin Jerome Presher Brosman Tarantino Director
- Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine
- Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa
- Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus / Emmanuelle Mimieux
- Eli Roth as Staff Sergeant Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz
- Michael Fassbender Cast
- Diane Kruger Cast
- Samuel L. Jackson Cast
- Daniel Brühl Cast
- Til Schweiger Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Like a bat to the head, it's not too subtle, but you can't help but watch.
Quentin Tarantino seems to be hanging on to a lost world of moviemaking. He may be nuts. But he's a nut who cares.
Its biggest flaw, though, for those who care about such things, may be its moral attitude. That might seem a stodgy thing to bring up in the context of a Quentin Tarantino movie, but it takes such center stage that it needs to be examined.
Landa is such a wily and despicable concoction that, in movie terms, he's almost impossible not to like. And therein lies part of my problem with this movie.
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