Inglourious Basterds (2009)

RATING:	60%
FORMAT:	DVD

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As usual with director Quentin Tarantino, he has created great single scenes, but they do not all come together to form a coherent whole.

The performances are all excellent - especially Christoph WALTZ who outdoes himself as the leading Nazi - but they are not connected to any real drama, that is really little more than a racial revenge saga that has nothing to say about the true nature of White supremacy.

Self-indulgent in the extreme and little more than a lot of fun for cinephiles who can spot the many references to other films that this movie contains. That the central characters are film stars or cinema owners or cineastes only exacerbates the increasingly-redundant self-reflexivity on show here.

This director really needs to get out of the cinema, discover the world outside and find something both interesting and intelligent to say about it.

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