The
Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot 8/10
Spoilerific.
Last night I watched this movie The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then
The Bigfoot based solely only the title. Well, that and I like the
star of the movie. I figured that this would be a movie like Big Fish
where this old guy would talk about the weird things he has done in
his life and you would see that some of it was true and the other
parts made up or like Bubba Ho Tep where it was real and no one
believed him. Turns out that I was wrong on both fronts. This guy
legit kills both Hitler and Bigfoot in his lifetime and it was pretty
damned groovy.
This
takes place in the 80's but this is not a nostalgia movie. It just
happens to be in the 80's. This old dude Calvin Barr is just chilling at home living a simple life with his dog. He has random flashbacks
about his days during the war in the 1940's that made me think he was
losing it. He goes undercover to assassinate Hitler but the story
stops and he snaps out of it in present day. I thought that they
would not actually show him completing his mission but they do. He
heads to a bar and while walking to his car is robbed. I thought they
were gonna kick his ass and he gives them a chance to just go but
they try and steal his car and he ends up kicking three guys asses
and then drives home. One day eh heads to the barbershop and has an
uncomfortable conversation with the barber who turns out to be his
little brother. They both know they are not as close as they should
be and it was a really nice scene.
There
is a lady that Calvin was trying to date and marry during the war
before he was sent off. He tries to propose to her multiple times and
is interrupted so he gives up. You can tell that there is something
special about this guy. Even when he first heads to Germany and gets
a magical shave (its a thing) the guy mentions how Calvin knows
multiple languages and could probably even paint but just has not
tried. Calvin is just good at everything. One night two government
agents visit. One of them talks about the tales he was told by his
father of Calvin and how he sounded more like a legend than an actual
man. Calvin is not flattered. He says when he killed Hitler he just
killed a man and that his influence is still in the world. They tell
him a virus is killing animals and people in Canada and is spreading
and that the source is Bigfoot. Somehow this is not absurd.
Calvin
heads up north and ends up tracking and finding Bigfoot. It does not
look like the Bigfoot you would picture. It looks more like a
skeletal monkey. He wounds it and ends up losing track of it but
finds it again and kills it. He thinks! He wants to give it a burial
with honor and burn it. Damn things leaps up and knocks his ass down.
It ends up breaking his arm and biting his ear off. Just when it is
gonna kill him he stabs the shit out of it. It starts vomiting all
over him but ends up dying. He never returns and there is a funeral
for him. He later does all banged up and meets his brother to go
fishing. This movie has a lot of sweet and sentimental moments. This
movie was shot really well and the title had me thinking this was
gonna be super cheeseballs but it was really touching. A story about
an old man that made decisions he can't change in his past but can't
forget. If you got a library card you can watch this on Kanopy.
Sam
Elliott as Calvin Barr
Aidan
Turner as Young Calvin Barr
Caitlin
FitzGerald as Maxine
Larry
Miller as Ed
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