Inglourious Basterds (2009) movie poster

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

"Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France..."
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👍 88%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 79%
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Runtime
2h 33m
Rated
R
Country
Germany, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
8.2/10 (23,878 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
89%
Metacritic
69

Cast

Brad Pitt as LT. Aldo Raine · 76% avg
Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna · 72% avg
Christoph Waltz as COL. Hans Landa · 71% avg
Eli Roth as SGT. Donny Donowitz · 65% avg
Michael Fassbender as LT. Archie Hicox · 71% avg
Diane Kruger as Bridget von Hammersmark · 71% avg
Daniel Brühl as Fredrick Zoller · 70% avg
Til Schweiger as SGT. Hugo Stiglitz · 71% avg

Is Inglourious Basterds good?

Yes. 88% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 79%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#315 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#18 / 230 · 2009
Rank among its director's films

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino that reimagines World War II through a wildly fictional lens. The film interweaves two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership: one follows a team of Jewish-American soldiers led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine, played by Brad Pitt, who are dropped behind enemy lines to spread terror among German troops through brutal guerrilla tactics; the other follows Shosanna Dreyfus, a young French-Jewish cinema owner played by Mélanie Laurent, who plots revenge against the Nazis who murdered her family. The two storylines converge at a Paris movie theater during a Nazi propaganda film premiere attended by Adolf Hitler himself.

Christoph Waltz's performance as SS Colonel Hans Landa — nicknamed "The Jew Hunter" — is widely regarded as one of the greatest villains in film history. Tarantino had been developing the script for over a decade, at various points considering it as a potential novel or miniseries before committing to the film format. The opening chapter, a 20-minute conversation between Landa and a French dairy farmer hiding a Jewish family beneath his floorboards, is frequently cited as one of the greatest scenes in modern cinema.

The film earned $321 million worldwide.

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