a usual and i be really look forward to a new tv or film on a favourite subject of mine make a nice change from a strangely familiar documentary about kursk or stalingrad on the history channel . i avidly look forward to pearl harbour and enemy at the gate but be rudely bring down to earth with the realisation of the malevolent and stupid ifying power of hollywood and it ability to spend an absolute fortune on tripe . so yet again i get excite about the rise of evil and especially a i hear that ian kershaw be involve and a i have enjoy his book . i can see why he quit . to quote some guy responsible for this rubbish representthe kershaw book be an academic piece and he say . it wasquite dry . we need more incident . incident . be they totally nut . hitler life can not be say to be without incident yes kershaw two volume hitler biography be long and detailed and but they be suppose to be . the thesis behind rise of evil seem to be representhitler be a very bad man no he be a very bad man and who hat jew and and just in case you miss this and be go to emphasise the fact in every scene in the film . there be no effort whatsoever to try and explain the mood of the time and and why hitler may have adopt the view and strategy he do . needless to say unlike the generally excellent nazi a warning from history this film neglect to point out the fact that nearly all of the leader of the munich communist rise be jewish and and that this may have colour his view on the subject and his axiomatic linking of the jew with bolshevism an absolutely crucial aspect to understand much of the nazi era . but there be not much understanding to be do the film maker weren not go to go there and so we just get all the stuff we know about anyway . we certainly do not get the fascinating fact that kershaw alludes to and which have hitler briefly be a socialist or communist immediately after ww1 . that would of course be far too complex for the film to handle and and might even detract from the relentless he be very bad mantra which bang away incessantly . we know he be a bad man . however and we also know that he be a mesmerising figure both a a public speaker and in more private situation . he could be polite and even sympathetic and and of course espouse some view like vegetarianism and anti alcohol and anti smoking that many guardian reader could agree with . he be also famously fond of animal and hence why that wholly invent dog flog scene be so absurd . he be also and from all the account i have see and a brave soldier in ww1 . whilst we saw him with his iron cross and we never get to see how he win it ( act of bravery be not in the script and needless to say ) . we also get no insight whatsoever into why he be so fire up by his war experience and whilst sassoon and owen and brook and remarque and so many others find it so repellent an experience . and again and like the point above re the jewish or bolshevik link and this be vital to anyone understand about the subject . why do he love war so much . why do he think it be always a good idea and despite massive evidence to the contrary . why do not he care about his colleague who die . or maybe he do but still draw the wrong conclusion . this film certainly do not have anything of any interest to say on this either . a all too often these day and the film be a classic example of amaking history relevant to the present and invent stuff or leave awkward fact out to fit in with the present which all too often be to cater to the low common denominator and where you do not trust your audience an inch and so you just ram stuff down their throat and know ( sadly correctly ) that you will always get away with it because there be so many dumb fool in the world . history be really about make u relevant to the past and see how it colour our present and for good and for bad . this rubbish be a great opportunity and lose again . they spend million on it and and the location and large scene be impressive and but tell u nothing at all we do not know already and and promote no understanding of this dark period in human history . wt .