Hitler: The Rise of Evil

Since I no longer expect or believe Hollywood has the capacity to make historically accurate films, I will leave this one's many factual gaffes alone.This is a good effort at covering a touchy subject -- my rating reflects only my estimation of the film's entertainment value.

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.

If they wanted to present him as a total psycho, would have been fuller and richer if had a bit of his thoughts, fears, all those mental components that one could have. In the whole movie there is no single thought.

What exactly was the budget of this?£8 million like The Gathering Storm, Dr Zhivago.

I'm reviewing the first 10 minutes or so, because that's how far I could bear to watch this garbage. The way Hitler is portrayed is just mindblowing.

Even though Ian Kershaw distanced himself from this project due to inaccuracies in regards to Hitler's life and yes, this is dramatised, but essential. Robert Carlyle plays Hitler during his later years, during this documentary that only deals with Hitler from boyhood until he became Chancellor of Germany, including The Night of the Long Knives.

This picture is historically inaccurate in both its inclusions and exclusions.Now that we have that out of the way (others here give an idea of the inaccuracies), and once I surrendered to the film (video) as a vehicle on its own, I was able to evaluate it differently.

Well first off I'd like to add that I myself is somewhat of a historian so what I look for in a film that is based upon historical events is that it is actually based upon historical facts. But this is however not the case here.