Look Who's Back (2015)

Just watched "Look Who's Back" which I expected to be a full-blown comedy satire, as a movie it's very smart with tons of cultural references and is very funny in general.But the movie also commented on real-life political situations or climates in Germany and Europe. going as far as mixing real people and their reactions in the movie alongside the actors and their acting.This movie was a funny, smart, thrilling, yet pretty genuinely chilling piece of cinema. So many scenes serve as mirrors and reflect on our mindsets as a society.It's better than Downfall and is probably the best movie-documentary I've ever watched.Totally recommending this movie to anyone knowledgeable of history, cultural references and socio-politics matters who wants to have a laugh, yet a very serious and surreal experience.

The movie starts great. Hitler is really himself and wakes up in the modern Germany. When the movie continues, the political message of the producers becomes clear and it isn't fun anymore for the neutral viewer. Great humor if you like the way modern Germany wants to rule Europe and the Democratic party would like to rule the USA. Unpleasant if you experience a different reality. But the first half is worth watching.

This movie touches an interesting topic, based on the book 'Er ist wieder da', where Hitler awakes 70 years after his death in Berlin, alive and kicking. Although this is marked a comedy, and has some funny moments, it is not really a comedy. And that also means it lacks goal; the movie does not really know what it wants to be. Comedy? Thriller? Documentary? Propaganda? The movie is carried by the good performance of the lead actor playing Hitler. As the movie progresses, it's becoming more and more a political commentary, but unfortunately of the cheap kind. One could say that as political commentary it slides into the same manipulative propaganda it condemns in Hitler ('I play people like the piano'). This movie could have been better if it had chosen for a clear direction (e.g. political commentary, or philosophical challenge to the value of democracy). Although OK, it struggles to rise above B-film status.

Even though German is not the most pleasant language to listen to because it all sounds so aggressive all the time in this movie it works rather well because Adolf Hitler's speeches were also aggressive all the time. The movie itself is a dark comedy with sometimes a political view of modern society. It shows a lot of what is happening in Europe and what people complain about. Well at least what right wing people complain about and think about the situation because I couldn't care less about races and ethnicity's. You have good and bad people in all ethnicity's. The movie has some funny moments. I know I laughed a couple of times but for the majority of the movie I thought it was sometimes a bit long. Oliver Masucci as Adolf Hitler plays his role really good though. He has the physics and the perfect intonation in his voice to play Hitler. It's a good movie to watch once but I won't watch it a second time.