Best movie of this year hands down!

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I thought Hitler--Dead or Alive was a serious men-on-a-mission war film before I started watching it, but before long it slowly dawns on the viewer that this is an out-and-out comedy in which a group of inept buffoons are parachuted into Nazi Germany in order to kill old Adolf himself. Chief interest arises from the casting of familiar character actor Ward Bond in the title role for the first and only time of his lengthy career.This film attempts to be a madcap comedy but it's anything but. Shots of the concentration camps and the like kill the comic mood stone dead. Bond tries his best but he's mired in a muddle of middling material. I suppose some scenes, like when the Americans jaunt down the road in Germany and encounter the locals, are funny in an outrageous way, but overall the effect is to cringe rather than laugh. The ending, in which Hitler gets his moustache shaved off, has to be seen to be believed.

It was interesting to see that Hitler Dead Or Alive originated a plot device used in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. The device? A renowned glamorous woman artist invited to an event accompanied by potential Hitler assassins ith false credential (posing as subordinate artists). Known of the male assassins spoke English or German ( or Italian) to well either).Tarantino consistently borrows only from the best, and, in some measure at least, Hitler DOA is the one of the best.Hitlor DOA certainly carries a serious World War 2 anti-Nazi message. While Hitler DOA is certainly Grade-Z entertainment, produced on a $10 budget with ghastly dialog and a great cartoon-ish plot, it presents a nice alternate universe twist to World War Two.

I saw this movie when it first came out. My age group cohort, the males anyway, still remember this movie fondly. Every kid saw it. Of course it's ridiculous, in the same way the Three Stooges are ridiculous. We wouldn't criticize our three stooge friends for not being realistic.At the time this movie came out, Americans didn't know about concentration camps and the Holocaust. Thus, the silliness of this film can be expected to fall flat for adults who watch it now. However, laughing at Hitler gang movies was quite common in 42, 43, 44. It was a common recreation.I will also add that this was Ward Bond's only starring role in his long movie career.

After eleven years at Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay, several gangsters are released and immediately concoct a scheme to kill Hitler in exchange for a bounty. Why will they succeed? Because they previously assassinated a fellow gangster. If you can accept that premise then the other contrived actions and subplots will be immaterial.This film is far-removed from Plan 9 From Outer Space not that it is better. This film was produced in 1941 or '42 which was in the early days of the War, long before the German Army retreated from North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Greece, Romania and France. This is a simple story exploiting the hopes and dreams of many Americans.It is especially interesting that gangsters are cast as heroes and at the end proclaimed "great Americans". J. Edgar Hoover and his star agent Eliot Ness at the FBI must have been livid after spending the 1930s claiming bootleggers and minor gangsters were the greatest threat to America since abolitionists.While some scenes provoke a smile, this is far from the lunacy of Plan 9. The writer, producer and director of this film are mere apprentices or hacks compared to Ed Wood, Jr. To even compare the two films is a travesty. Unlike Plan 9, I recommend renting this because one viewing is more than enough.This would have been great comedy if the Three Stooges had been cast as the lead actors. But, they were not and therefore, this is merely a mild broth that is less than filling. However, it does have one redeeming characteristic and that is the ending when "war lords and profiteers" are proclaimed a greater threat than Hitler. It is mind-boggling that the screenwriter foresaw Dick Cheney, the president of Halliburton corporation who loudly advocated during 2003, invading Iraq allegedly to destroy non-existent weapons of mass destruction. And, subsequently out of sheer coincidence received contracts totaling more than $12 billion to rebuild Iraq.