(May Contain Spoilers)
When I chose this film to watch I didn’t realise it was a Quentin Tarantino until I saw his name in the opening credits. From here I had expectations of the film and I did deliver to Tarantino standards it was gory and there was a great ensemble cast and the storyline interweaved in between the characters. Additionally, I think the opening scene with the Hans (Christoph Waltz), the Nazi Jew hunter and the farmer was a great introductory scene that was full of suspense. The final showdown between the Nazi’s and Jew’s wasn’t much of a showdown but more of an annihilation!
Like I said the opening scene is between a farmer and Hans. Hans is a Nazi Jew hunter and thinks that the farmer is hiding Jews at his farm, the farmer confesses this to be right and Hans continues to kill the Jews hiding under the floorboards. Sohsanna (Mélanie Laurent), however, is a young Jewish girl who survives and runs away. Meanwhile, Lt Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) is gathering a small gang of Jews to travel to Paris and kill the Nazi’s. An intriguing scene where Lt Raine captures three Nazi’s and asks them to inform them of where the other Nazi’s are, but 2/3 refuse and get battered to death, whilst the third tells and survives taking this information back to Hitler (Martin Wuttke).
Later on, Sohsanna, who is now twenty-something, owns a cinema in Paris which was left to her after her auntie had died. Sohsanna meets Frederick (Daniel Brühl), another Nazi, who tries to chat her up. Frederick is well known amongst the Nazi community as someone who killed many rivals, to the extent that a movie is made about him. After kidnapping Sohsanna for a dinner, Frederick introduces her to other high-ranking Nazi’s and Frederick pleads that his film about this life story premiers in her cinema. Additionally, across the water in the UK, Lt Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender), is asked to go to Paris and meet their informant to kill Nazi’s. Lt Hicox goes to Paris and meets the Nazi hunter gang led by Lt Raine. A few of them go to meet the informant, Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger), a German actress. Lt Hicox and some of Lt Raines gang go to meet Hammersmark who tells them that there is a premiere of the Nazi film (Fredricks film), which will be full of Nazi’s and Hitler himself.
However, a Nazi is enjoyed a quite drink in this pub where they happen to be having their meeting and confronts Lt Hicox for his unusual German accent that he has not heard before. There is then a shootout between the Germans in the pub and Lt Hicox gang, which results in many deaths. Luckily for Hammersmark, she survives but Lt Raine tells her that she needs to help him and other get to that premiere so that they can bomb it. Meanwhile, Shosanna is planning to burn down her own cinema with the Nazi’s in it.
At the premiere, which the whole film has been leading up to, and everything is in place for Shosanna, unlike Hammersmark and Raine who are sussed out by Hans who then takes Raine as hostage. However, it is not what you might think as Hans asks Raine for his help to bail him out of the Nazi group and to make sure that the American’s can give him refuge is he tells them all the Nazi secrets. This was such a massive shift in character for Hans, but the way that Waltz played it made it believable. As the evening goes on two of Raines men bomb the cinema, as well as Shosanna’s plan of burning the building and none of the Nazi’s survive and Hitler gets killed. Unfortunately, there are also little to no survivors on the Jewish side as they sacrifice themselves for the cause.
This film is one to watch if you are having a Tarantino marathon, as well as a Brad Pitt marathon (which I was). I also watched this after watching the Amazon Prime series Hunters (2020) so I was having a bit of a Nazi and Jew overload! The ending scene at the cinema premiere was very tense and the ending was great to see all the interweaved storylines collide and a sort-of happy ending but in typical Tarantino style very few people survive. Finally, another note is that the cinematography and use of red is sublime! Thrilling, clever and tense.
Stream now on Netflix.
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