well acted but hard to watch

Rating: 7/10 (25 June 2014)

Downfall is very well acted but hard to watch. It could have been trimmed down by 10 minutes or so. Since its focus on a lot of the high ranking nazi's there is no real sympathy for anybody expect a few of the young kids and the dog! It is a disturbing film to see all these people blindly following Hitler. Bruno Ganz really impressed me as Hitler,he did an amazing job. It really felt like watching the real Hitler. Juliane Köhler was wonderful as Eva as well. It is quite a violent movie but I think in a movie like this it's needed. The scene where the children were poisoned was very hard to watch,especially as the oldest seemed to know what her mother was giving her. I do think having some prior knowledge of the last days of world war 2 and who the high ranking nazi are and what they did helps.