Every time a new film by Quentin Tarantino is announced it is as if it is the heralding of the Second Coming such is the alleged importance of this cinematic feast - which of course leads to the all-important question "Is it any good?", and the answer is unsurprisingly a resounding "No".So what are the problems?
Well for a start we have Brad Pitt's one-note performance based on far too many viewings of The Godfather such is his visual impersonation of Marlon Brando - secondly it is far too long,thirdly it is too pretentious and lastly and most egregiously it rewrites history.
Appalling.Hitler was not assassinated in a cinema in Paris despite what Mr Tarantino thinks.The basic premises is that US officer Brad puts together a "special team" of American soldiers to "take the fight to the Nazi" and each of his men has two things in common - they are each a Jew and a psychotic killer.One of the scenes shows the aftermath of a forest massacre with three German survivors - all of whom are gruesomely tortured.
The ethics of this would be rather suspect if the soldiers concerned were SS or some similar unit but they were not - simply ordinary German infantrymen doing their duty.Which makes the Americans no better than the Nazis.Mike Myers appears in a cameo as a British General with a cut-glass accent assigning a British officer to the "Barstards" (as he pronounces it) and the great Rod Taylor appears as an unrecognisable Winston Churchill.
The bloodbath finale is neither exciting nor feasible as the entire German High Command is butchered without the benefit of any security whatsoever.Not a single guard.Ridiculous beyond belief.
Are there any plus points? Two scenes of trademark Tarantino dialogue each topped off with a burst of violence are the only saving graces.The arrogance of the man in rewriting history for tawdry entertainment purposes is simply pathetic.Rubbish.1/10
Well for a start we have Brad Pitt's one-note performance based on far too many viewings of The Godfather such is his visual impersonation of Marlon Brando - secondly it is far too long,thirdly it is too pretentious and lastly and most egregiously it rewrites history.
Appalling.Hitler was not assassinated in a cinema in Paris despite what Mr Tarantino thinks.The basic premises is that US officer Brad puts together a "special team" of American soldiers to "take the fight to the Nazi" and each of his men has two things in common - they are each a Jew and a psychotic killer.One of the scenes shows the aftermath of a forest massacre with three German survivors - all of whom are gruesomely tortured.
The ethics of this would be rather suspect if the soldiers concerned were SS or some similar unit but they were not - simply ordinary German infantrymen doing their duty.Which makes the Americans no better than the Nazis.Mike Myers appears in a cameo as a British General with a cut-glass accent assigning a British officer to the "Barstards" (as he pronounces it) and the great Rod Taylor appears as an unrecognisable Winston Churchill.
The bloodbath finale is neither exciting nor feasible as the entire German High Command is butchered without the benefit of any security whatsoever.Not a single guard.Ridiculous beyond belief.
Are there any plus points? Two scenes of trademark Tarantino dialogue each topped off with a burst of violence are the only saving graces.The arrogance of the man in rewriting history for tawdry entertainment purposes is simply pathetic.Rubbish.1/10
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