Interesting beginning, which builds up nicely, but then bombs miserably

Rating: 1/10 (28 April 2015)

This contains a spoiler. So don't read if you haven't yet seen the movie!
The movie has a riveting beginning. And the movie bills up suspense nicely as it proceeds, creating suspense and luring you into its plot.
But the climax fails miserably: it's too fantastic and unbelievable, including its portrayal of Hitler. The viewer cannot suspend disbelief.
I respect liberties taken with history, even with very sensitive moments in history, but to create an ending as such in the movie completely denying the events that occurred in time reduces the movie to an insulting cartoon: it mocks the intelligence of the viewer.
Some actors and actresses, though, gave great performances: notably Diane Kruger, who may be the most seductive and feminine woman in the world, and Christolph Waltz. Brad Pitt, on the other hand, is no Warren Oates, and was not believable at all right from the very beginning of his entrance in the movie.
"Desperado" worked for me: it was in part a spoof and largely entertaining. But this did not, partly because of its subject matter: too fanciful, unreal, and thereby insulting the viewer.
Sadly this could have been a great film. I read that the author had put the script aside for years before completing it. Perhaps that explains the disconnected ending and the film's failure.
The portrayal of Hitler truly missed its mark. It was not even humorous in order to make it palatable to the viewer. "Fractured Fairy Tales" portrayed the course of human events more realistically than this movie.
My final grade? This movie could have been an A+; I give it an F-.