Mmmmmmmmm

The version seen recently was just shy of 3 hours, so still missing some footage, but the problems with this are deepset with atrocious acting by Hopkins and a terrible and inaccurate script which portrays Mussolini as a big cuddly teddy bear terribly misunderstood by all those around him! !"Downfall" brilliantly humanised Hitler but you still felt revulsion-with "Benny" you actually start to feel sorry for the guy.There`s a brief mention about atrocities in Africa but the writing is far too sympathetic to someone who led Italy to ruin, even if he did sort the trains out!Hoskins is just ok and does his best with a bad job but the poor guy playing Hitler just doesn`t convince.The Gran Sasso rescue is reasonably done ,with a good Skorzeny lookalike, although the gliders do unfortunately look like paper aeroplanes!This can be forgiven if the writing is up to standard but sadly it`s not.