It’s not entirely clear whether he’s supposed to be funny or not, but his time on the screen is largely distracting. Throughout the entire film, he pulls a strange face, as if he’s straining to break wind, and talks like he’s just bitten his tongue.
What’s more surprising is how bad Brad Pitt is as Aldo Raine, the US soldier in charge of a group of Jewish combatants known as the Inglourious Basterds. Predictably, the decision to cast Eli Roth as the Bear Jew doesn’t pay off, and even though it’s a fairly small role, it’s still fairly embarrassing. However, whereas Pulp Fiction‘s list of screw-ups and thugs were all largely memorable – including the brief but brilliant appearance of Amanda Plummer – the many of the characters in Inglourious Basterds are either forgettable or miscast.
If you can excuse the blatant historical inaccuracies, then the idea of a Pulp Fiction with Nazis doesn’t sound too unappealing. There no denying that the concept behind Inglourious Basterds is an interesting one: it’s a film set during World War II, but in a kind of alternate reality, where Quentin Tarantino is god, and Adolf Hitler was blown up in a cinema.
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