The movie takes place in several chapters, each featuring only a couple of scene changes at most. This serves to maximize each scene's effect, especially when one considers how much actually goes on in each scene. Much of the time it's entirely dialog driven, with a surprisingly low level of violence given both the premise and Tarantino's past films (Kill Bill, Grindhouse, Pulp Fiction, etc.). It also featured quite a bit of German and French with subtitles, which was refreshing as many movies take the (rather lazy) liberty of assuming every European during World War II spoke English with heavy accents. All of the actors were well cast, and the dialog was excellent. There is also a good balance of tension and release, and the ending felt satisfying.
Despite being a very well-done film, no review would be complete without some criticism. The beginning felt quite drawn out, and felt like it took a while for the story to get rolling. It was also kind of a long movie, but the whole final 15% or so went by extremely fast. A marker of a good movie is if the only critique one can manage is nit-picky things that are easily passed by, and such is certainly the case here. No one should go into seeing it for the first time with the idea that it's historically accurate, as that could only lead to disappointment. It is, however, a good action flic and Brad Pitt pulls his weight as usual.
But hey, that's just my opinion.
