This film has Quentin Tarantino written all over it and it was a lot of fun. The guy who played the ‘Jew Hunter’ was exceptional and I don’t even know who he was (yes, I could look it up on IMDB but I’m too lazy). You could tell he was having a lot of fun playing the role.
Brad Pitt was Brad Pitt and it honestly would have been so much better without him. He brought nothing in particular to the role, though I did like that he somehow thought his Italian was better than the rest of the team’s.
The thing I loved about the entire package was that for each scene you never quite knew what was going to happen and he did a good job of ratcheting up the tension, especially in the bar scene. In each scene you could never tell who the red-shirts would be, which is always a nice change. Of course, the gore was present throughout.
Edit: I’ve just now being wondering why it is I didn’t like Brad Pitt in this film and I think I may be onto something. In all of his roles (including this one) he is a constant and his character has no development at all, other than saying different lines. Nothing he does is nuanced. His characters act the same at the start, middle and end of every single film he’s been in. For most of his films that’s suited the role well, but I’m a bit tired of it myself.
Was a great movie! Most of the cast (jew hunter inc) were just obscure German or other EU actors.
But pitt was the best, especially as an Eye Tal E An
I also quite enjoyed the mishapen skulls of the Basterds during their line-up, and the hat worn by the film minister’s interpreter during her first scene :)