A good movie, but way too long.

Rating: 7/10 (16 April 2005)

Der Untergang, does what no other WWII movie has ever done before, it makes you look a Hitler as a human being. And that makes it even stronger, when you realize that this tired, worn out man was responsible for the deaths of 5 million Jews. Bruno Ganz playing Hitler is phenomenal, and casting and acting is generally what makes the movie so memorable.
But then why a 7? simply put it's way to long. It shouldn't have been longer then 90 min. It repeats itself a lot, all of Hitlers meetings with his generals is surely to show how he wouldn't accept reality, but that is not something we need repeated that many times. As goes for a lot of other scenes. I like the movie, but I think the length is killing it. I simply do not feel like watching it again.