By: Roha Huda Toronto Star Movie Critic, Published on Mon January 11 2016 3.5 stars out of 5
Starring Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent, Michael Fassbender and Eli Roth. Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Inglourious Basterds is an audacious war film with a strong ensemble cast that is directed by one of the most popular director that Hollywood has seen through the years; Quentin Tarantino. His take on a Hollywood World War II film is sensational that grips the audience from the first scene. Some say that the film falls after the opening scene, however Tarantino fills the audience with crisp and realistic dialogues throughout the film. Inglourious Basterds might be one of the best R-rated films of all time.
Tarantino wrote the script of this film in 1998, but he struggled to get the ending right and instead directed the Kill Bill series. After 10 years, the production began and was filmed in France and Germany that had a 70 million dollar budget. At the time, this was Quentin Tarantino’s highest-grossing film. Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 classic film that received many …show more content…
Brad Pitt plays the leader of the squad, Lt. Aldo Raine. Eli Roth is the director of the Hostel that plays the second-in-command Sgt. Donny Donowitz; Diane Kruger plays Bridget Von Hammersmark, who is a famous movie star that is a double agent for the allies, and Lt. Archie Hicox played by Michael Fassbender is a film critic. Melanie Laurent plays Shosanna Dreyfus is a Jewish women that owns Le Gamaar Cinema and has made a plan to remove the Nazis top command. Hans Landa played by the award winner Christoph Waltz was the real