very enjoyable film this is my kind of film any way good story line and christopher walz is excellent delivery excellent yet again thanks to amazon
Rating: 4 / 5

film is too long and too boring just an awful film. unlike some reviews have said i think

the story was very predicable in the first 20mins if you understand the story its very easy to workout the end then you have to sit for another 2hours waiting for it to finnish. with over 80% of this film just made up of massive long boring conversations with not much else going on i got very bored an being a fan i expected a lot more from this film.

its no kill bill vol 1 its no pulp fiction.

maybe he should of sold the story to oliver stone he might done better job

Rating: 1 / 5

The subject matter is brilliant but the film is too long and boring. About half of it is subtitled which is always annoying when you’ve paid good money for a DVD.

The film could have done with a good half hour less and still conveyed its central theme-that evil deeds get evil retribution.

The idea that the Jews could have taken such revenge is fanciful as history proves. But it is at least something to see a film where the Jews aren’t portrayed as passive and easy targets for the sadism of Nazism and their European collaborators.

My problem is with the subtitles and the length of the film which obscure the amazing notion that the Jews could have taken the ultimate revenge and killed Hitler.
Rating: 3 / 5

Having been a fan of Quentin Tarantino’s work for some time I felt that after the Kill Bill series his genius will live on… oh I was so wrong.

Now I don’t know exactly what it was that made me hate this film, but after watching this film I felt that if QT decided to retire from film making, I would not blame him.

It’s a shame too because it starts of really well with the setting in France and the star of the film being the evil SS Jew hunter (defo deserves an oscar, inspite the quality of the film), but then introduce Brad Pitt and the film falls down. Given that at one point Brad Pitt was considered by myself as a decent actor (seven and The river runs through it to name two) his performace in this film is beyond wooden, in fact it is so wooden it would be Mahogany. After coming to terms with this you have to then deal with such a poorly thought out storyline which is in no way able to match the original. It also felt that characters were being introduced just to waste time for example the British characters, who actually made little contribution to the story its unbelievable.

I have watched the film now about 4 times and it does not get any better, although having discussed the film with others, I can in part see where QT was going. Tongue and cheek attitude to classic films such as The Dirty Dozen, in part you can appreciate certain parts of the film.

So do I recommend this film, well if your looking for a war film with back to back action, well forget it, there is little action and what there is, does not take place in some grand Saving Private Ryan battle sequence which I suppose I expected given QT’s reputation for violance, there are far to many distractions such as Diane Kruger’s pointless character.

However if you fancy a partial comedy with no historical relavance to WW2, then may be this is your cup of tea.

Having said that, if I could I would get a refund on this.
Rating: 2 / 5

I like Quentin Tarantino, but I watch his movies as movies, not as Tarantino Movies.

So – is this one any good? Well, it has some very good bits, most notably the first scene – but there are others too.

The problem is that Tarantino never seems to manage to inject much tension – the film seems to be more about style than story. For me, it felt like watching set piece after set piece with very little to connect them up beyond a strong sense of time and place. Plot-wise it felt weak. Don’t get me wrong, there is a plot underneath rolling everything along, but it’s not a patch on those old classics like Where Eagles Dare [1968] [DVD]or The Guns Of Navarone [DVD] [1961]. I found myself not even caring too much about whether the baddie got his come-uppance (never a good sign).

You can’t flaw the cinematography and Brad Pitt is excellent (in a 2D role) – the scenes that work, work very well – but overall it’s fragmented. Fun to watch, but hard to care.
Rating: 3 / 5