Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Josephina Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

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.

danc-26 Many inaccuracies. First, Hitler and his bunker crew were German and spoke German. The actors in this film were British and Italian speaking English. The layout of the bunker is way off; it was more cramped. The entire final scene where Eva Braun and Hitler kill themselves is complete and reckless conjecture. How does anyone know what transpired between them in their final moments? Much of this film seemed to about giving a history lesson, what with some characters unnaturally giving historical background while engaged in conversations with one another. It was also awkward to have Hitler discussing the map situation, then the camera cut to a map with subtitles giving the date and how far from Berlin the Russians were — obviously not what Hitler was looking at on the table before him. The film makes Hitler out to be a bad guy, which is as it should be, but make him out to be a bad guy accurately!

naseby This narrative, which boasts the authoritative stamp of Sir Hugh Trevor Roper is a classic. An Anglo-Italian production, it had fine scenes, acting and script. Whilst I do like the other comparable film 'The Bunker' (1981), this one reigns supreme.Hitler retires to his bunker and the atmosphere is captured very faithfully, even if we didn't really know what was true or not. The claustrophobic environment, coupled with the impending doom of the oncoming Russians, especially when hell's rain can be heard above, from inside the bunker gives us more than a fair idea of what was going through the minds of those, in a way, imprisoned below. There were fine actors in it and of course, Sir Alec Guinness's portrayal of Hitler is excellent. At times though, it seemed there were elements of comedy in his portrayal, but it could be said it was almost showing a kind of sympathetic playing in the sense of a man who has wronged but feels wronged himself. (By Germany and the Germans more than the allies).When 'Der Fuhrer' is mouthing off, deluding himself everything is okay when clearly it's not, there are added documentary footage pieces of WW2 Berlin/Germany/Battlefields/Nazi atrocities, contradicting his very words to emphasise his colossal delusions.The fine actors in it carry this through very effectively right up to its predictable and factual conclusion. However it is meant to portray the end of the Reich and Hitler himself, some questions other than the dialogue that may have been recorded leave us to 'suppose' what MAY have been said. For example, it was known that Eva Braun was totally dedicated to Hitler, but, leading up to the couple's suicide, she is seen questioning his motives, basically as if they were worth it, then at this, topping herself. (No-one other than Hitler and Eva were present at their point of suicide history has had us believe). There again, there's always licence so to pick on this film for that would be unfair.The last time I saw this on TV(UK) was in 1985, at a kind of celebration of forty years since the end of WW2. (Unless I'd missed it again in the schedules in these next twenty-odd years!). Still, I got to video it and then convert it to DVD, but recently, I managed to buy the DVD online from a Danish supplier, thankfully - a good film.

mm-39 Alex plays Hitler so well, I do not think anyone played Hitler as well. Maybe, tomorrow's CBS movie on this will give such a accurate portrayal. The sad part of this movie is its budget. It's done on the cheap, and is more like a play that is set in his bunker. This makes the movie a bit long. The strong acting makes up for this shorfall. Worth watching on the History Channel. 7 out of 10.