Review of The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2019) by Brodacious — 21 Feb 2019

This film has such a hilarious premise, and initially it seems like it’d be great. It comes off initially as an old vet going through senior life recalling the time he killed Hitler, all while leading up to him fighting Bigfoot. It’d have been a wonderful film I’m sure if that’s what we got, problem is it’s ruined by an entirely unnecessary romance plot that does nothing for the film but make you think, “god this editing is f-ing terrible”. Scenes transition to sudden action, back to romance, then back to the old dude Calvin, all with no real correlation. The worst part is the romance plot has no real influence on much of the film, beyond explaining what was foreboded by an early scene, but altogether it could’ve been removed entirely from the movie without affecting anything beyond screen time. This is significant, as while the romance plot feels like it draws on forever, the juicy parts centering around killing Hitler and the Bigfoot feel very rushed for time, leading to the killing of Hitler somehow not being satisfying due to poor build-up and loss of momentum. Then you finally get to the Bigfoot, which is frankly the most jarring par to the whole film. It feels like it was tacked on out of obligation rather than being an intended part of the film. See, through the film there’s a good bit of teasing on Calvin’s moral code on killing, and there was even a full-on monologue about him considering killing Hitler being irrelevant as his philosophy had already infected Germany. So, you expect something more from this scene. Nope, he just kills them. It’s a mess.

TL;DR The Man That Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot is a film that tries to do too much and ends up not having enough time to do anything well.