‘Inglourious Basterds' Reviews Say it's Glorious

‘Inglourious Basterds’ gets rave reviews

If you’re trying to figure out what to spend your money on at the box office this weekend, “Inglourious Basterds” reviews indicate that it’s definitely worth the $10 or so for a movie ticket. Starring Brad Pitt and directed by Quentin Tarantino, who has a stalwartly loyal and large band of followers, “Inglourious Bastards” is destined to be a box office smash.

Add in the war element and a gigantic budget, much bigger than any installment loan you could imagine, and this film simply can’t lose. It’ll make nine digits for sure. Here’s what some critics at Rotten Tomatoes had to say in their “Inglourious Basterds” reviews:

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

Back in his days as the geek god of clerks at Manhattan Beach Video Archives, Quentin Tarantino must have looked at all those World War II movies, especially the ones about plots to kill Hitler, and realized what was wrong: everybody knows the ending. Bad guys lose. Hitler died in his bunker. Where’s the suspense? Where’s the ambiguity? Most films about the war treat the historical record as sacred, which often serves as an excuse for lofty moral judgments.

Only a few bold souls created alternative versions, like the 1963 film It Happened Here, in which Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo imagined a Nazi-occupied Britain. Tarantino’s rewrite is more brazen still, with a twist that’s pure Hollywood. Hitler will die where? In a movie theater. And who will kill him? Some Jews. … click here to read the rest of the article titled “‘Inglourious Basterds’ Reviews Say it’s Glorious“