Micitype Pretty Good

Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Everyone knows who Hitler was and what he set out to do and what he actually accomplished. But just how many know the backstory of the man who waged war on Europe? Well, worry not, "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" is an means of immersing yourself into a history lesson by means of the entertainment of a movie.What is interesting about "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" is that it follows Adolf Hitler during the years prior to his conquest for world domination and the years that molded and shaped him into what he became. It is a movie that gives an insight into the more personal aspects of the man and the tyrant.One of the more impressive aspects of "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" was the cast. Because they had managed to get together some good acting talents for this project. And it was quite interesting to see Robert Carlyle in the role as Adolf Hitler, and he did pull off that unique look quite well, and he also portrayed his quite good. But other talents such as Peter O'Toole, Peter Stomare and Liev Schreiber were also complimenting the movie quite well.It is a good and entertaining movie, especially if you have any interest in the history of the world. However, the movie does suffer a bit under the fact that it is an English speaking cast, as that just takes away some authenticity from the story."Hitler: The Rise of Evil" does offer a good portrayal of how Adolf Hitler came into a position of power, and just how much can be accomplished with a charismatic force behind the voice of a nation. And it does portray Adolf Hitler as a man with desires, needs, fears, aspirations and so on, and not just as a tyrannical fascist dictator.If you enjoyed "Der Untergang", then you should also enjoy "Hitler: The Rise of Evil". I think that it is definitely worth spending the time to sit down and watch this movie. And it actually sustains more than just a single viewing.

Alex John The whole point of Hitler's RISE TO POWER was his charisma and that he was worshiped/viewed in a very positive light by his followers, think of Hans Landa in "Inglorious Basterds" but even more so(almost all the people that met Hitler in real life were impressed). This is what the movie fails to do, Hitler is presented as the producers see him, not as tens of millions of people that followed him to the very end, his companions or his foreign contacts(see David Lloyd George, the former British PM and how he described Hitler after their meeting - hint, the total opposite of how this movie portrays Hitler). The facts are that he was decorated 3 times as a war hero, he was voted by Germany to power and he was a very able politician and political figure(think that for 12 years, and long after they lost the war, many Germans still viewed him with the highest regard vs. today when politicians are hated in the first 2 years or so), and he created 6 million jobs in the first two years while in power VERSUS this movie -> "Hitler is chaotic evil clown, and I'm offended", cool story bro, with a lot of unhistorical elements and plot twists just to accentuate "the evil", but you fail to show us his actual rise to power and how he got the masses to follow him(otherwise nobody would follow him, no matter how evil/good you think a guy is). 1/10

DarthVoorhees Hmmm, how to play Adolf Hitler? It's a role like Christ no one wants to touch it and yet if you do it right.... It's all about the presentation. Hitler: The Rise of Evil takes it's title quite literally. Adolf Hitler is practically foaming at the mouth he's so evil. Is this the right way to portray Hitler? No. The Adolf Hitler of this film is a cartoon with no ounce of humanity. But surely Hitler was a monster? No he wasn't and it is irresponsible of films like this to claim that he was. Nazism and the Holocaust were atrocities created by men fumed by irrational hate. If Hitler were some monster and pure concentrated evil it gives him an excuse. This film is a fantasy and a pretty comical one at that starring a mean ogre who comes down from his cave to wreck havoc on the world waiting for the knights to come slay him. Robert Carlyle's Hitler lacks any subtly at all. Fair enough I suppose neither did the real Hitler. The problem is his Hitler is a cartoon. No person in their right mind would listen to him for a second. What Carlyle needed to do was show Hitler's false face. Bruno Ganz' spellbinding portrayal of Hitler in Downfall remains the best portrayal because he played Hitler as a man and not a monster. The fact is when Hitler is dissected to his base level he has no real power and is nothing but a severely mentally ill man who accumulated a dangerous amount of power to enact his horrible dreams. When you portray Hitler as a cartoony monster it says that society had no part in his creation. Anti-Semetism, Military Chauvinism, and violent Nationalism were in the air and they created Hitler. The true danger and lesson that should be taken here is that the world is still capable of making a Hitler. What the film advertises is exploring the roots of evil of Nazism and it doesn't. Hitler is a demon child from hell. The same famous quote by Edmund Burke is stressed again and again,"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing". It's a boring quote which has lost all meaning since originally spoken because of it's over usage. And it presents a problem here. In telling a story about Hitler you are not just telling a story about a mad man, you are telling a story about the country he violated and subjected to tyranny. And this is by far my greatest personal problem with the film. In telling the story of Hitler's rise to power you have to tell the story of the German people. Hitler rose to power by exploiting horrendous want and despair suffered by the German people. If we merely want to discuss evil than at the point of time this movie was set this is the greatest evil Hitler could have done. The movie would have you believe the entire country was nothing but blood sucking krauts and huns who became henchmen for a villain so cartoonish he should be tying up Roger Moore. The film it's self isn't very historically accurate so there really isn't much to get from it. It plays like a soap opera. Did I enjoy it? I don't like the implications it raises but it is highly watchable in a weird way. Sometimes melodrama can be engrossing but this is melodrama of the lowest sort and so I sort of felt guilty watching it. If you like historical soap operas than you probably will to a certain extent invest some level of interest in the film. The real question though is could your time be spent watching something more substantive?

Andres Salama An entertaining miniseries, filmed mostly in Prague and with good production values, about Adolf Hitler and his rise to power, taking him from his childhood (dealt briefly) until the night of long knives.Unfortunately, and presumably in order to avoid any charge of creating sympathy for Hitler, the filmmakers portray him as an always angry and ranting sociopath. Yet, according to most historians, Hitler, despite being an undeniable political monster directly responsible for the death of millions of people, could be also charming and charismatic. Hitler, as portrayed by the Scottish actor Robert Carlyle, is so off putting, you wonder why anyone would decide to follow him. (In this movie, even as a child, Hitler seems to be channeling the bad seed). Some other Hitler movies have been more honest in this respect: the German film Downfall is the first movie that comes to mind, but even the little known Hollywood film from 1944 "The Hitler gang" shows Hitler as friendly and charming with his associates.I found it also somewhat disappointing that most of the actors don't resemble their characters much: the actor playing Goebbels is the one that resemble it most; the legendary Peter O'Toole is fine in his brief turn as Von Hindenburg; Carlyle don't look a lot like Hitler; the actors playing Goering and Rohm none at all. Also unfortunate is that some major associates of Hitler like Himmler do not appear at all here, while the relatively unknown Ernst Hanfstaengl (played by Liev Schreiber) is one of the major characters here.These objections aside, I must finally say that this miniseries is undeniably entertaining and never boring, despite being three hours long.