Inglorious Basterds

Over-the-top characters and graphic, bloody violence dominate this uneven, Oscar-nominated, tension-filled, sporadically funny and kitschy, cameo-filled (Mike Myers, Cloris Leachman, Samuel L. Jackson, and Maggie Cheung) Quentin Tarantino remake of the 1978 Italian film The Inglorious Bastards punctuated with a few unbelievable character oversights in which a ruthless American mercenary soldier (Brad Pitt) and his infamous band of scalping Jewish soldiers (Eli Roth, Gedeon Burkhard, Til Schweiger, Paul Rust, Sam Levine, Omar Doom, B.J. Novak, et al.) cross paths with a cunning Gestapo colonel (Christoph Waltz) when their plot to kill Adolf Hitler (Martin Wuttke) and his Nazi leaders (Sylvester Groth, et al.) with the help of a German double agent (Diane Kruger) coincides with the revenge-fueled plan of an orphaned French cinema owner (Mélanie Laurent), whose Jewish family was massacred in 1941, and her Negro lover (Jacky Ido) in Paris to kill Germans during the film premier of Nation's Pride about a Nazi war hero (Daniel Brühl).
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