Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Sammy-Jo Cervantes There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Euan McIntosh I made the unfortunate mistake of watching this film before reading the book. At the time of writing, the only reliable way to see Fatherland is to watch it on Youtube. I would love to see a proper DVD/Blu-ray release.Without any knowledge of the book, the film is excellent. A tense thriller set in a unique setting with presentation that makes anyone who enjoys historical stuff (like myself) engrossed. The alternative history, the Albert Speer architecture, the carefully thought out references to actual historical events such as the bombing of Dresden and the nuclear attacks on Japan. Both of which are considered war crimes by many, allowing for a small hint of socio-political commentary.The flaws lie in the plot, which has significantly deviated from the book, in that the ending seems over-dramatic. I will not spoil it but those of you who have read the book will possibly agree that the ending to the novel is more intense, subtle and powerful. Rutger Hauer's performance is excellent, well acted and his style is perfectly fitting of a character like Xavier March. Miranda Richardson plays the role of Charlie Maguire solidly, at times a little wooden and restrained.All in all, the film is a decent homage to Robert Harris' most famous, and arguably his best, novel. For a low budget, mid 90s TV movie, I am impressed. I would love to see a new adaptation of the book, perhaps with a longer runtime (less condensation) and with a larger budget?

Charlot47 The novel had rising suspense up to the last page, with glimpses of real love amid multiple layers of black treachery, and an unspeakable dark secret at its heart. It was based on solid history, extrapolated into a fascinating alternative that was gradually revealed. Only bit by bit did one realise that Germany had conquered all Europe and that the Kennedy who had been elected US president was the unadmirable Joseph.None of that will you find in this feeble film, which even Dan Brown might be ashamed of. Showing the ghastly structures with which Hitler if victorious proposed to uglify Berlin, the Hall of the People and the Victory Arch, was at least instructive. Use your brain enjoyably for a couple of hours by reading the book instead.

michaels_929 This is the worst movie I have ever seen! What were you people thinking? What a stupid stupid idea and what a stupid movie. What a waste of time. This movie got 2 awards? Amazing! I would be to ashamed to make a movie like this one. But again, this is ME a guy with a class. What would have happened if Hitler..... yes really, what would have happened???? Who wrote this story? 14 or 15 year old kid or maybe someone with a mental disorder? I am not sure! The whole idea is wrong and really stupid. That's the best I can say without being more "descriptive" using our nice plain English. The best that you guys can do would be to take this movie off your list and pretend that it never existed....

naseby Okay, to dig holes in what would make a glorious 'what if..?' means to do just that, dig holes. Apart from good performances from Rutger Hauer and Miranda Richardson and the rest of the cast, even if you accept the changearound, it's still too laughable around the historical facts we DO know about.Germany has won the war (Nazi Germany - that's important!). It's 20 years on, Churchill has buggered off to Canada leaving a capitulated Britain and guess what, America pulled out of Europe in the all - important 1944 and decides on a 'kind of' pact with Nazi Germany (As if - I know the west encouraged Saddam Hussein on the throne then kindly made him look the enemy, but this is still stretching it). Oh and by the way, Der Fuhrer, yes, the same one, Adolf Hitler is still alive at 75 (Nice catchphrase). A young American journo, Miranda Richardson is covering the forthcoming state visit of American president Joe Kennedy (It is fictional, remember) where Hitler will negotiate further with him on their wonderful pact, which incidentally, forgets that Germany is STILL fighting the war in Russia. (Maybe this is meant to show America's hate of commies and they'd rather except Nazism - another 'as if'!). In actual fact America's contrast is that the world knows nothing of the concentration camps/Nazi atrocities etc, which are about to come out in the plot. SS Chief of Police, Xavier March (Rutger Hauer) teams up with Miranda Richardson's 'Charlie MacGuire' after a lot of new facts surface and deaths occur within the Nazi idyll (Yes, idyll, another what if, as if). March finds himself isolated, on the run, because, even 20 years ago, when he served the Fuhrer lovingly in the navy, (Like they all did and denied later) he's disillusioned with the cover up of the systematic brutality of the Nazi regime. Had he known, he says, he wouldn't have served his beloved leader (Not in my name etc). He's presented with photos of the death camps that Charlie has unearthed and they both end up running from the SS/Gestapo. They manage to hand the pics to the president just as he's going to meet Hitler on a kind of Nuremburg platform. Then the deal's off, of course and a footnote, from March's son, whom he tried to abscond with, with Charlie to the USA says it's then that the Nazi regime collapses - because America knows now, or because ordinary Germans can't abide what had happened - not fully explained! We're led to believe the former, methinks!This is tripe of the first class. Firstly, it forgets Hitler had Parkinson's disease and must have had a miraculous recovery. Another fairyland tale is Hauer's sympathetic SS officer. That's an SS officer - the daily indoctrination of Aryan supremacy, untermenschen and fanaticism never featured in his upbringing nor had any influence on the fact he's made it to an SS police chief! Other factors including mention of the Americans dropping the atom bomb on Japan defy belief that if they had it they wouldn't have threatened Germany with it and would rather pull out of Europe. Another crappy piece is, I know that WE know the holocaust happened, but the presentation of the photos to Joe Kennedy showing a few emaciated bodies, however familiar to us, didn't, in reality, mean they had been instigated by the Nazis, in a big enough form. Nor was the way Charlie broke the cordon, just by pushing through and getting to the President believable - okay, I know someone shot Lincoln and Reagan, but still!It was a very cheap and poor production, with about a handful of 'Germans' making up for a crowd scene of Nuremburg-like proportions. It had all the premise of a TV movie and it shows. About the only saving grace for me, was that it showed Hitler's utopian new Berlin , or 'Germania' as he intended it named. It showed his and Speer's visionary architectural fatherland - sorry - fairyland and it's only for that that I gave this a 'four'!