 Apologies to the younger members of the club, but this is a partial review of an 18 certificate movie.
Went hoping for two things. A return to form for Mr T and mass Nazi-slaying. I wasn't disappointed. Wow!
Tarantino is at first somewhat restrained (for him) until the last 30 minutes or so when... well, you'll just have to watch the film. "Unhinged" would be the word for any other director that did this. But, being QT, he gets away with it. Unusually for him, the story is told in more or less chronological order. However, it's not following historic facts ('alternate history' or 'counter-factual' are, I think, the academic ways of putting it). Clearly owes a lot to the 'Dirty Dozen', but also German Cinema of the period, around which the plot revolves to some extent.
One memorable - and extremely tense - scene involves a load of chaps in Nazi uniform sitting around a table in a bar, playing the Sticky Forehead Name drinking game. Let's just say that the forfeit for guessing wrong could be a severe one!
A lot of the film is in French or German and subtitled. Not for QT this awful habit of actors putting on zilly accents vhen zey are meant to be talking in their own language.
Brad Pitt is good, but Christoph Waltz is absolutley stunning as the Jew-hunting Col. Landa - very chilling and at his most dangerous when he's apparently at his most charming and affable.
Definitely worth seeing. | 
