Its a jewish propaganda movie that Have nothing but lies and insult

this miniseries film is so outrageously over the top in dehumanizing Hitler as to make him into a cartoon character. Someone like Hitler was genuinely frightening, and movies like "Downfall" do an excellent job of portraying how he could so easily charm people, and also his delusions and irrational tirades and constantly blaming others that are disturbingly reminiscent of modern day leaders.Here, from childhood he's depicted as an uptight bratty phuc boi. The childhood is gone over in a semi-montage form, and from that point all throughout the WW1 sequences, every scene ends with you laughing at how absurd it's been.Robert Carlyle is utterly phenomenal as Hitler, managing to perfectly encapsulate his public persona and his speaking style and mannerisms. He does the absolute best with what the script and direction gives him, which means that there is no subtlety or humanity to this character at all. In his private moments, he's the same semi-coherent jibbering loon as in his public moments.At no point is there any reason given as to why people would flock to him over some other rabble-rousing speaker. He treats everyone with the sort of detached, pent-up hysterics of a bad imitation of a person with aspergers or some other odd personality disorder.Whether or not it would be accurate or true to Hitler's character can't fully be known, but the movie goes out of its way to only present Hitler as perpetually dumb, stupid, unbalanced, and shrill.Even if accurate to his personality and temperament (before the war and the drugs), the shrill, unsubtle way it's directed makes it come across like a psychotic anti-Hitler hit-piece not directed at condemning him for his evil actions, but basically just condemning him for being a loud-mouthed weirdo.The overall direction is done with a clumsy lack of any sort of subtlety or realism. Overly dramatic shots and musical cues are abundant, as if the characters are supposed to somehow know just how EEEEVIL Hitler is every time he's in the room. There's literally no redeeming characteristics of this depiction of Hitler.Real life Hitler loved dogs. The Hitler in this film is depicted violently whipping a dog for not sitting on his command.The man was responsible for tens of millions of deaths and a poisonously suicidal ideology that has managed to persist to this day, you don't have to invent reasons for us to hate him like this film seems to try to do.

Sometimes it's difficult to know where parodies end and 'serious' history begins. Mel Brooks's THE PRODUCERS (1967) memorably parodied Adolf Hitler by casting Kenneth Mars an all-singing, all- dancing hippie leading the flop musical "Springtime for Hitler." John Cleese in the memorable episode of FAWLTY TOWERS (1975) antagonized his German guests by putting his index finger up to his lips and goose-stepping across the screen. Bertolt Brecht's THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI (filmes in 1972 and also available on YouTube) transforms Hitler's life into a grotesque agit-prop satire.All of these skits on Hitler came to mind while watching Christian Duguay's supposedly serious bio of Der Fuhrer. As portrayed by Scottish actor Robert Carlyle, he came across as manic in the extreme, obsessed with the ideas of power and antisemitism. No doubt Hitler in real life harbored similar obsessions, but he must have had some human qualities in order to attract mass support. It is said that he made his reputation by kissing babies during his public appearances; none of that aspect of his leadership appeared here.The production suffered as a whole from the tendency of all the characters to speak perfect English apart from the occasional "Ja, mein Herr," or "Auf Wiedersehen" to signal the fact that they were inhabiting Germany. As Fritz Gerlich, Matthew Modine turned in a mannered performance reminiscent of his role in the telefilm THE American (1998). A case of Henry James transplanted to Germany four decades after the novel appeared. The remainder of the cast were barely competent; an aging Peter O'Toole chewed the scenery (as he tended to do in the last roles of his lengthy career) as President Hindenburg.Duguay's production skirted over the narrative, chronicling Hitler's early life in the briefest detail, and spending far more time staging repeated meetings in an underground room standing in for the Munich bierkeller where Hitler made his name as a speaker. The fast cuts, coupled with the repeated use of shot/ reverse shot sequences and close-ups made it seem as if this production had been filmed very quickly, despite the historically accurate costumes and European locations (with the Czech Republic standing in for Thirties Germany).Hitler: THE RISE OF EVIL might be watchable as a mindless slab of evening entertainment, but don't expect any penetrating insights on the subject's life or why he had such a mesmerizing hold over the German people for over two decades.

Wow, this is complete garbage... I sat down to watch this ready to see some piece of history come to life. WRONG! This movie is so inaccurate it becomes harder and harder to like... The movie is over the top and the character of Hitler is wrong.. the Acting is fine, but the details are awful.Like someone else said, nobody would follow this Hitler. While it is common knowledge that many experts considered him some what of a lunatic, this was not the case early on. Yes he was vocal, yes he was hateful, but not to the degree they show him in this film... because it can hardly be called a documentary.Very disappointed, I don't watch documentaries for a neat story, I watch them to see History come to life... If your a history buff and looking for some exciting history piece, this is not that piece.