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Continuing the month of February with Quentin Tarantino movies, we see his 2009 World War II film, “Inglorious Basterds,” perhaps one of the most intriguing movies he has ever done.

I say intriguing with great respect and admiration for Tarantino, who loves oddball, eccentric characters that always run into violent predicaments. This film is unique in the fact that it has a large cast of characters, each one being very deep and well-developed in the plot. Tarantino could’ve easily made this one film into four different films, but kept them together with each character somehow relating to each other, whether they realize it or not.

Unlike “Resevoir Dogs,” we don’t get the conflict of the film right away and try to find out who snitched on whom. Instead, Tarantino sets the film up in chapters, introducing the characters that will be important and their goals.

We first see “Jew Hunter” Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) who is sent by Hitler to find all of the Jews and take them into custody in France. After a brutal massacre, Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent) escapes being murdered and flees to Paris.

Next we are introduced to the Basterds, led by Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt). Raine and his angry Jewish-American group are moving through Germany trying to find Hitler while also having each man owe Raine 100 Nazi scalps.

These two chapters are the groundwork for the story, but as it progresses things become more complicated, leading to a final showdown in Paris at Shosanna’s theater.

Only 30 percent of the film is in English, so there will be subtitles throughout, but don’t let that sway you. Inglorious Basterds is a treasure and work of art. With an outstanding cast that includes Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl and a brief appearance by Mike Myers, history is rewritten in this terrific film that earned Tarantino two more Oscar nominations.