Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.
wes-connors "An intelligence agent is set off to investigate events surrounding some of the world's leaders and he comes to a shocking discovery. A plot by former Nazi scientists to clone the world's leaders, in order to return the Third Reich to power, has been undertaken and he must try to stop them from completing their evil plans. Tracking down the headquarters of the Nazi scientists brings another surprise to the agent, when he uncovers the madman ultimately behind the sinister plot," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.One of the most boring films every created. Dare an insomniac to stay awake during the first twenty minutes. If you can keep your eyes open, as William Lanning seems strangely able to do, watch for the "Area L7" sign (probably the film's highlight). Then get ready for a spit upon Lesbian prison guard and a few explosions. A not so shocking surprise guest appearance would make the most ardent xenophobe racist swear off holocausts forever, lest they be exposed to more films like "The Lucifer Complex".* The Lucifer Complex (1978) David L. Hewitt, Kenneth Hartford ~ Robert Vaughn, Merrie Lynn Ross, Keenan Wynn, Aldo Ray
fedor8 The only fan of "The Lucifer Complex" watches the movie, while we get to watch him watch it. That's certainly one way of giving the viewer the middle finger.If you've always wanted to watch a B-movie through the eyes of an unkempt, bored moron from the future, then you won't be disappointed. But if you thought the narrators from "The Astounding She-Monster" could not be matched in sheer, unbridled, shameless stupidity, think again. The hairy imbecile sits around in a cave, apparently having nothing better to do with his time than guide us through history by playing us shoddy stock footage. Evidently, padding was the only "cure" LC's "filmmaker" could up with to solve the missing-footage dilemma. "Damn, how do I fill up the time
I think I'll just get someone to comment wisely on the current political thingamabobs. He should have a beard, coz people with beards look wise – and rebellious - I guess." The narrator is the anti-Gandalf, though
He goes through WWII footage, making comments that would make an 8 year-old kid with straight Fs in History bury his head in shame. "War is bad". That's what you get when a filmmaker with zero education – and a strong will to be accepted as a "valid (left-wing) social commentator" – tries to inject wisdom into a friggin' C-movie. "Maybe if I turned this crap into a message movie, they might overlook the flick's 935 flaws
"After war, the thing he hates most is technology. "Technology was always a way for the rich to control and weaken the poor", says this narrating D-movie buffoon. Nevermind that penicillin saved countless poor, along with a plethora of other scientific advances. As long as a bearded man is saying things about how bad war is, and how evil the rich are, that suffices. Next up is the Vietnam War, which the inept narrator describes as "the longest war". His original intention might have been to describe it as "the baddest" of all wars, but he stopped short of saying it; not because the word doesn't exist, but because it was simply too long for him to say it without tying his tongue in knots.But just as we are about to start taking this intellectual giant seriously, he throws in some Woodstock footage. His food-encrusted mouth forms into a knowing grin, and grinning like the ape that he is he starts ogling the drugged-up hippie gals for a while, afterwards adding what a "noble idea" the hippy movement was based upon. "Noble" being the female hippies' willingness to spread their legs for anyone – especially a smelly, like-minded, bearded moron from the future. Eventually, finally (well, not really) this E-movie's "director" tires of his unique padding style, and the hairy narrator finally gets to show his precious gem, his baby
Yes, it's the "Lucifer Complex": Robert Vaughn saving the world from second-generation Nazis, while being assisted by some rather daft blondes all of whom prepared for their roles by taking anti-acting classes."When you make an F-movie, you might as well go for broke, and feature a cheesy version of Hitler", this G-movie's film-stitcher probably thought. Just a second later he must have had his umpteenth Eureka moment when he decided that Vaughn was too dull on his own (something that should have been obvious from the get-go) but were two Vaughns really the answer? It would have been, if one had been matter and the other anti-matter, but sadly no matter, anti-matter or brain-matter (for that matter) was involved, hence the fight resulted in one Vaughn remaining alive, and that is clearly one Vaughn too many.
cdleseurs1 I was one of the clones! The curly haired guy in a few scenes behind Robert Vaughn. He didn't say much, just smiled and did what he was told. Many of us were acting students from the Lee Strasberg Drama Institute - so much for method acting. It was filmed across the street from Paramount at a small sound stage we entered through a back alley. They feed us from MacDonalds! I never got paid for it, so I guess I might as well not hold my breath anymore. You'll notice there is a strip across where our private parts would be, so you couldn't see our bathing suits or underwear, and we just grabbed the feeding tubes and stuck them in our navels.
Hitchcoc This is a horrible movie. But it is also quite charming in the best bad movie way. What does it have. It has a man living in some mountainous (Scandanavian?) country with the entire knowledge of the earth on crystalline rocks, reviewing the decline of the human race. Interestingly, most of the history is in black and white with projection streaks running through them. The main story, however, involves the rise of the Fourth Reich. It is a convoluted story that really makes no sense. People are being captured and turned into zombie like clones. They then do the bidding of a Herman Goering type leader who sits back and yells out orders. There are women with machine guns that can fire up to 50,000 bullets without loading. The Nazi's are utterly incompetent. They leave a fully loaded tank around that can easily be commandeered by anyone who knows how to run it. What happens is apparently what causes the downfall of civilized society, but I'm not sure why. Keenan Wynn plays an old guy with a Santa Claus beard who rants and raves. We can't tell the clones from the real people and what, exactly, happens at the end. It's just the silliest piece of junk, but those women, running around in their gray prison uniforms, firing machine guns, is quite remarkable.