An epically curious view of the plight of the French Jews during the occupation and a wonderfully bold vision of the undercover attempts at bringing down the Third Reich... and if you're in the business of killing Nazis, "business is a-boomin'."
"Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France..." That's the tagline of director Quentin Tarantino's (Kill Bill, Death Proof) massive WWII story revolving around two plots to take down the Nazi leadership... one from a US CIA black op led by one Lt. Aldo Raine who is played by Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Burn After Reading), the other from a revengful, nazi loathing Jewish girl named Shoshanna, played by Mélanie Laurent of French film fame, who's family was slaughtered in the countryside by Nazi SS Col. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), the "Jew-Hunter." Aldo's band of Jewish-American merrymen keep busy ravaging Nazi patrols all throughout France by using a terror technique learned from the Apache Indians of North American to instill fear and doubt. Eli Roth (Director of Hostel, Cabin Fever), plays the "Bear Jew" who has become a mythical, bat wiedling creature reading to bludgeon to death the entrenched Nazi's . As it turns out, both plots to destroy the Third Reich intertwine as Shoshanna becomes the object of affection for a young German soldier named Fredrick Zoller (Michale Fassbender), who also happens to be starring in a movie about his heroism... this leads him to get his movie premiered at the very theater Shoshanna now owns and operates. At the same time, Diane Kruger (National Treasure) plays a German actress who is a spy for the US/UK and working out plans to blow up the theater while the event is occuring. Shoshanna has other plans...
Amazing movie, really. Automatically in my Top 5. The dailog is expertly written, and executed in the same regard. The characters were fun, believable, and easy to connect with. The story, for this subject matter, couldn't have been any better. My only real blah thing about the movie is what gets me about most Tarantino movies, the music. I don't know, maybe it's just me... but I guess it wouldn't be a Tarantino movie if the score was done just like every other movie. It's a tad lengthy, but I hardly noticed. Oh, and this isn't for kids, so please... it has an R rating for a reason.
8.2/10
Rated: R
153 mins
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I think the music score was amazing on this. My roommates were watching this movie and I was in another room, and by not watching it I realized just how brilliant Tarantino was with the soundtrack. Then again, you like Owl City so...I can understand how you could disagree. :)
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