DVD : 4/5 Rating : Good Luck, And Good Night

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IMHO REVIEW :
just finished watching this and enjoyed it very much. no action, no gun fire, no explosions - just good story telling, good acting and great dialog.

i was very impressed by the pace and how they tried (i thought) to keep the story as honest as possible. the pressures of the times were expressed very well i thought, and in all honestly i know very little about that time - but after seeing the movie (and if it's historically accurate) i gotta say... the stuff that's happening now sound very familiar to what happend in the 50's.

random jailings of people with accusations but no real proof... everything based upon fear. it definately makes me learn more about what during McCarthism.

BUY / RENT / BORROW - definately watch it.

DVD : 4/5 Rating : Downfall

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IMHO REVIEW :
saw this movie the other day... it was a very hard movie to watch. the movie covers the last few days of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

i think if you're a huge history buff (especially war buff) + you have a high tolerance for gore you'll like this movie. i for one had a very hard time with it - because the gore (sawing off someone's leg / arm - killing children via poison) was just too much. the realism as well as the casualness of some of these scenes (which i'm only guessing to be what it might be like in a war situation) was just too much.

i turned away many a times hoping the scene would end. but as for the acting and the storytelling it was great. especially the actor who portrayed Hitler. the character starts off being a strong figure and as the movie moves on starts to become this frail defeated shell of a man. the characters around him / the mood and everything starts to errode and turns chaotic.

i would not recommend this movie (even though i think there's some good acting / story / etc...) unless you're a war / history buff. i had a very hard time viewing it due to the content in this movie... and anyone who knows me knows i don't get freaked out too easily.