The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot

You look forward to the coolest film of the year, with Nazi hunting and the legendary creature, and what you get is a dodgy portrayal of ageing and fighting one’s own past. Sam Elliot and the composition of some of the transitions between the two timelines are great, the rest is sloppy, with motivations that are so incomprehensible that it’s embarrassing. (02/12/2019)

Robert D. Krzykowski was physically present before the screening and warned us not to expect any B-type exploitation flick as the title might suggest. He said his film is more in the style of Hal Ashby and Robert Altman. And he was right – having too high expectations for this piece would be a mistake. The title is actually not subversive at all – both Hitler and Bigfoot are killed in the film, but the piece concerns something completely different in practice. What I would call subversive is the entire concept – if there even is one – and its (non-)understandability. Aside from that, it is a strangely narrated, sensitive drama about ageing, the value of undertaken deeds and related legends concerning a man who was in no way special, yetwas exceptional.[Sitges 2018] (10/15/2018)

The best thing about this film is its bizarre title and Sam Elliott in the lead role of a badass pensioner who shot Hitler in World War II. Now, when reminiscing about his old love, he is hired by the FBI to track down and kill Bigfoot in the Canadian forests. Unfortunately, neither Elliott's acting nor the surprisingly well-filmed and sometimes nicely-directed scenes (on a limited budget) have a chance to succeed in a completely disintegrated and unbalanced story, which constantly avoids any escalation, taking the obviously completely absurd plot unnecessarily too seriously, and clumsily throws away everything that could have been interesting in the story. The film is basically a weakly constructed and retrospectively narrated torso of a minimalist war romance, in which funny and short episodes with Hitler and Bigfoot (plus one isolated nonsensical passage with a Russian and beard shaving that has nothing to do with the rest of the film) are just random and completely unused diversions. (10/12/2018)