Strong and intense!!

Rating: 10/10 (24 April 2019)

I have seen many films about both world wars, some were good and some bad...but Downfall seems to me, in my opinion, the most intense, deepest, and strongest movie about the demise of Hitler and the end of the European theatre.
Bruno Ganz portrays Adolf Hitler as if he were Hitler himself. The gestures, mannerisms, even the look would literally give an intense fright to anyone if he walked into a room where no one knew who Ganz was. So much of the story follows the real story of life in the bunker, in and around Berlin, April 1945. The film grips you with clutches of paranoia, fear, and the unknown. It is truly one of those movies that you have to truly appreciate history to understand the complexity of Germany at the final end. It is not an ordinary "ding dong the Führer's dead" movie; it's a compelling and to-the-point one you never want to get up and go pee kind.
Very sharp, deep, and intense. Definitely a buy and keep for any military or history nostalgia buff.