Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. The best part of Downfall is probably the infamous scene where Hitler is really losing his mind in a completely funny way and trust me that's probably the only redeeming quality of the movie cause the rest of it it's pretty much drop dead boring and just meh. The acting wasn't anything special either to be honest and the story as a whole just disappointing and not that very interesting and honestly just go and check on something else.

All I can say is this is a remarkable movie from start to finish. One of the best wwii movies I've ever seen. Acting is outstanding and the story sucks you in. There is a reason this movie has so many great reviews. It's an incredible movie about a very dark time in world history... it's well worth your time to watch it.

I've seen this movie 3 times and every single time I'm left with a heart pounding with emotions. This is not a work of fiction; it's the biography of a young and innocent girl who gets hired to be one of Hitler's secretary.The entire movie is seen through her eyes and that's why you discover more intimate aspects of Hitler who is capable of infinite kindness towards the women surrounding him but can snap into a complete maniac in a matter of seconds with his soldiers. It's a psychological movie about human nature, power and a sense of unity which can carry people beyond total madness. The last minutes of the movie are the most intense because everyone is aware that they are about to die; they have lost the war yet nobody has the courage to tell Hitler the truth: he can't handle it!

Downfall is a word somebody found appropriate to translate into English the German film Der Undertag. And my deep ignorance of Goethe's mother tongue makes it very difficult to judge whether or not the word suits an historical and world-changing event like the Holocaust. In any case, I hold the belief that no rational explanation, regardless of its accuracy, can even come close to offer a proper and convincing explanation of what happened in Germany under the Nazi Regime. Yet Downfall isn't science but art, it's precisely because of this that may have a fair go at explaining what has no explanation.However, Downfall isn't at all about a comprehensive portrait of Hitler (brilliantly played by Bruno Ganz) and Nazis in Germany. It's rather an accurate depiction of the last days of that political system and its leader Adolf Hitler. We get to see him living his final days in his bunker in Berling. Surrounded by German troops and high-ranked officials in a city swept by war, the madness of Hitler is almost touchable. He's a man who gives away his intention of committing suicide in such an open manner that makes you wonder if he is pulling somebody's leg; he's a man who drags invisible armies across a map and into the heart of Berlin while pulls away the ally's armies as though his hand was the same hand of God, filled with mighty power to wipe them out. And he is a man around who everything and everybody orbits.The degree to which characters ranging from officials directly responsible of keeping the III Reich running, to just a simple secretary recently hire by the Führer, they all seem to be reduced to mere children in the presence of such a man. It looks like hes a man-turned God who draws on other people's emotions and weaknesses and turn them into obedience and power. When this process is over, he sends the final product back to their former owners. Yet now, the content is changed ans so is the owner. One could say he's a parasite that feeds off people's mistakes, changing them in the process.Can only a man shape so much a country that irrationality becomes normal? It turns out it can. Of course, as one would expect, not everybody complies with the law or play bay the rules. There's one particular character who amid the madness and violence seems to represent reason. He's a doctor and although the does what he's told to, the often confronts the orders he's given and the nature of absolute power. Through his eyes we see how this absolute power was projected onto the German society and its devastating effects and consequences.