Max
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DVD Cover Information Actor: John Cusack, Leelee Sobieski, Molly Parker, Noah Taylor, Ulrich Thomsen Director: Menno Meyjes Brand: Lions Gate Producer: John Cusack Writer: Menno Meyjes Producer: Andras Hamori Producer: Andrea Albert Producer: Cameron McCracken Producer: Damon Bryant Producer: François Ivernel DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language) Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Running Time: 106 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-05-20 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Lions Gate |
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Movie Reviews of Max
Movie Review: Really dumb
Summary: 2 Stars
Some time ago British TV made the sitcom "Heil Honey I'm Home", an over-the-top Honeymooners/All in the Family send-off featuring lovebirds Hitler and Eva Braun living in a Lebensraum-challenged flat in suburban England, next door to their wacky neighbors the Goldensteins. Now imagine that someone took that show, deleted the laugh track and marketed it with some serious sounding tag line like "a disturbing look into the heart of Evil." That is basically what "Max" is. I mean, for crying out loud, is it even possible to think up a more ridiculous premise than a 30 year old Adolf Hitler becoming best buddies with a decadent, left-wing, upper-class Jewish performance artist? What's the next project for dramatic revisionism? Josef Stalin's early career in a lesbian ballet troupe?
Even if one could accept such a far-fetched conceit, the historical and stylistic blunders are too large to overlook. For some reason Hitler has a funny, foreign accent; Cusack does not. The movie leads us to believe that Hitler was converted to anti-Semitism by a puppet show produced by right-wing army officers, when in reality his pre-war experiences in Vienna had already turned him against the Jews. Most jarring of all is that this movie's Hitler is a diminutive, charmless, greasy nerd rather than a man who, as we know from history, was a charismatic, magnetic leader from earliest childhood.
The movie isn't totally laughable; the sets and costumes and general atmosphere achieve an admirable effect. However, the storyline is a bad joke and the characterization consists of the same stock caricature that Hollywood has been using since the war. It's a bore and a failure. Avoid.