Good acting and an engaging story that holds your interest throughout makes this movie worth watching. It attempts to be historically accurate, as well, and I'm not going to completely knock that attempt, but that leads to the same criticism I have for 99% of flicks like this and that is that there is no way in hell anyone can say with any degree of accuracy what really transpired with those people or even what the Big H was really like in person. We can't even say that about people in power who are currently alive, let alone a person who, last I checked, there exists maybe like one minute recorded of his normal speaking voice. The old propaganda films you see are about what you get with that dude, aside from a handful of anecdotes from people who had some dealings with him, usually only on a minor level.
While I liked this film, I really found the way the Big H was portrayed to be a little hard to swallow at times. The guy was undoubtedly a delusional windbag, but for some reason my mind wandered off to that scene in Monty Python's Holy Grail with the "Black Knight", still threatening to kick ass while he was having his arms and legs cut off. Could suck a kook really cause that much mayhem? Most of his closest inner circle were also reprobates, but they weren't stupid and I doubt they were suicidal or took relish in seeing their country reduced to rubble. There were attempts at surrender made behind his back, but I have a hard time believing that such ruthless goons would sit there and patiently humor a nut job at such a late stage in the game, but who knows? I wasn't there and neither were the guys who wrote this thing. It's still a good watch, regardless.
While I liked this film, I really found the way the Big H was portrayed to be a little hard to swallow at times. The guy was undoubtedly a delusional windbag, but for some reason my mind wandered off to that scene in Monty Python's Holy Grail with the "Black Knight", still threatening to kick ass while he was having his arms and legs cut off. Could suck a kook really cause that much mayhem? Most of his closest inner circle were also reprobates, but they weren't stupid and I doubt they were suicidal or took relish in seeing their country reduced to rubble. There were attempts at surrender made behind his back, but I have a hard time believing that such ruthless goons would sit there and patiently humor a nut job at such a late stage in the game, but who knows? I wasn't there and neither were the guys who wrote this thing. It's still a good watch, regardless.