GamerTab That was an excellent one.

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

kigerajoe-70262 Having recently watched this movie and downfall a later movie about Hitler's last days in the bunker I have to say that this movie is a let down. The main character Hitler himself is played by Alec Guinness. Guinness makes no effort to change his accent from that of an English toff to that of an Austrian. He fails to portray the manic behaviour of Hitler's and the effects of the onset of Parkinson's disease as the movie downfall does. The audience doesn't get a chance to identify with any characters as in downfall it does. The characters are cardboard cutouts in this movie. 2/10

JasparLamarCrabb Not particularly cinematic but still fairly arresting thanks to Alec Guinness's riveting performance in the title role. Guinness's interpretation of Hitler portrays him as both a doddering old coot AND a paranoid lunatic. He's pretty scary. Director Ennio de Concini juxtaposes the outré goings on in Hitler's bunker with newsreel footage of Germany's decimation at the hands of allied forces. The dialog is at times comical (Hitler discussing the obesity problem of German music stars) and at times creepy (Hitler ordering the flooding of German subway tunnels being used as a make-shift hospital by injured German soldiers). Guinness is great and is supported by many fine character actors including Adolfo Celi, Simon Ward and Eric Porter. Doris Kunstmann makes an appropriately bourgeois Eva Braun and, in a cameo, Diana Cilento plays a resourceful flying ace. The chilling music score is by Mischa Spoliansky.

tracyfigueira It seems only fitting that Sir Alec Guinness, the world's greatest actor, was chosen to play Adolf Hitler, the world's greatest evildoer. Although Hitler was only fifty six when he died, he managed in those 56 years to do more evil than the rest of humanity has in 200,000 years, or however long we've been on the planet. This movie has moments of absurdist black comedy worthy of Samuel Beckett--indeed, Hitler in his bunker was probably the inspiration for the mad tyrant Hamm in Beckett's "Endgame," who also lived in an underground bunker. The frequent playing of Johann Strauss's jaunty "Fledermaus" overture provides ironic comment on the on screen action. Guinness was at a low point in his career when this film was made--his glory days of the 1940s and 1950s were long gone, and his comeback role as Obi Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars" was still in the future--but he gives a commanding performance and is never less than believable as the mad dictator. The mostly Italian-British cast has a number of interesting performances, particularly Adolfo Celi (Number One in "Thunderball") as General Krebs, the one relatively sane person in the bunker, and Diane Cilento as the female aviator Hanna Reich, who is clearly in love with Hitler and jealous of Eva Braun (the lovely Doris Kunstmann). Excellent as history lesson and entertainment.

gunnarvl Alec Guinness becomes Hitler, and it is the most realistic portrayal I've ever seen. Derek Jacoby and Anthony Hopkins come no where close to this in their respective films, Inside The Third Reich and The Bunker. This is like a color camera capturing Hitler speaking in English. It is frightening yet has touches of humor, especially when the announcement of Hitlers death is made to the other residents of the bunker, you see a pretty blond woman reach for her small case containing cyanide capsules and cigarettes. She chooses the cigarettes and she and everyone else in the room light up. The most memorable line in the film is Hitler trying to conjure up some of the old charismatic magic of the past, addressing a young captain played by Simon Ward. "The Gods give their love only to those who demand the impossible. Mankind is ruled by will, by determination. When the will is thrust by genius, it generates a force which throughout history has proved irresistible"