(Quentin
Tarantino/2009/USA & Germany)
Tarantino
tackles World War II in an escapade that’s very much indebted to
comic books, as usual, and also films like the Dirty Dozen and
Merril’s Marauders. The stand out performance is Hans Lamda as the
“Jew Hunter” Nazi whose casual menace is palpable. Each chapter
is a set piece much like Pulp Fiction or indeed any Tarantino movie
really but this isn’t just business as usual. Tarantino is
employing his style with a level of self awareness and tact learned
from his previous films and he’s at the height of his powers. Each
time I see this film I get a little closer to considering it his
best. He manages to balance the adult horror of fascism and violence
of war with the little boy excitement and adventure of those old
comics like Warlord, Victor or Commando. Neither suffocates the other
and the result is an exciting and funny war movie that doesn’t side
step the terrible reality and brutality of humans killing each other.
(3.5/5)
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