Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino star in a new WWII film called Inglourious Bastards. For some reason, the critics loved this film. I did not at all. It is set in World War II in occupied France. But it is pure fiction. After all, the heroes and heroine manage to kill Hitler and all of his top brass. I am not giving anything away here as you can see it coming early on.

A hick former hooch maker from Tennessee and now US Army officer forms a squad of American and ex-European Jews to go after Hitler's Nazis. This guy is an over-the-top hick who takes no prisoners except a very few whose forehead he carves a swastika into. All of the Germans his troops capture are killed (some brutally beaten to death) and scalped. Yes I said scalped. Hence the Germans have nicknamed this guy The Apache. You can see this coming too when he claims to be a descendant of the South's most brutal Civil War raider.

His chief nemesis is a brutal SS officer who is Hitler most successful Jew hunter in France. The movie opens with him interrogating with overwhelming gentlemanliness a French dairy farmer who is hiding girls from a Jewish family. The SS officer kills all but one whom he allows to run away to catch another day. This guy is evil.

The Americans plan to kill the Nazi high command when they all attend a movie premiere in a theatre now owned by the young Jewish escapee now passing as a French woman. Meanwhile, this young woman also plans to set the theatre on fire with the doors locked. The two do not know of each other or of their respective plots.

The acting is good for those who play their parts straight (the young Jewish French woman) but over the top and brutish - almost slapstick - by many of the other actors. Hitler is played way over the top, so bad he is almost funny. It was all a mishmash - silly unrealistic plot, a few straight actors taking their roles seriously and many just playing louts, boors and brutes.

I guess I did not get this movie. Was it supposed to be slapstick, to ridicule and parody World War II movies? But the brutal parts, the beatings, and the scalpings, we're just too graphic to be funny.

I'd call this movie just plain stupid. And it was over 2 1/2 hours long.

Don't bother.