( Only in a Tarantino movie do you find heroic critics . ) `` Inglourious Basterds '' thrilling twist on war movies by Quentin Tarantino , says critic . CNN.com 's Tom Charity : Film opens with masterful scene , sustains tension . `` Basterds '' stars Christoph Waltz as a German soldier who is sent to the Eastern Front in World War II and becomes involved in an assassination plot against Hitler.
`` Inglourious Basterds '' thrilling twist on war movies by Quentin Tarantino , says critic . CNN.com 's Tom Charity : Film opens with masterful scene , sustains tension . `` Basterds '' stars Christoph Waltz as a German soldier who is sent to the Eastern Front in World War II and becomes involved in an assassination plot against Hitler.