finally a good film on the war in Europes final days

Rating: 10/10 (27 August 2006)

Alright first and foremost Hitler was a horrible man. He was a murderer, and a war-monger. But Hitler was a person as much as I hate to admit it. As a society we cannot always see things one way, we must make revisions and reexaminations of the past and Downfall does that. For 60 years 99% of all World War II movies have been shown from point of view, the Allies. And they always portray Hitler as one type of person without explanation. This movie gave it's best shot and it did it. Hitler needs to be shown for what he really was and how he really acted, and he is in this movie. He isn't the same dictator that is shown in all the other war movies as the bumbling, psychotic, egotistical maniac. This film he is still mentally unbalanced and egotistical, and a maniac when he states that it is best for the German people to be thrown back into the middle ages since they have failed in his plan to win the war. And when he invents divisions to defend Berlin from the Soviets. No movie has done that before and this for changing the way Hitler is looked upon is in my minds eye a masterpiece.