The Lucifer Complex
The Lucifer Complex
| 01 January 1978 (USA)
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An intelligence agent discovers a Nazi plot to revive the Third Reich by using clones.

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Contentar

Best movie of this year hands down!

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FuzzyTagz

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

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SanEat

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

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Tyreece Hulme

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

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mpeter-16877

Regardless of potential seriousness of the subject, this is ABOMINABLE cinema; just as how I remember 1970s TV as a kid; all that crypto-weirdo (non-)'suspense' drama, lots of running away and chasing, daft music, stupid, stupid, STUPID! Pseudo-philosophy of the all-seeingone watching it all through fake-Big/Hi-Tech. Spare your time and eventual sense of mental calm: AVOID AT ALL COSTS, unless for observation curiosity, just to understand what a virtually total dead-end 1970s 'TV entertainment' really was; ultimate back-end of 1960s' fake-swinging elation when the world they in fact lived in was nothing more than an introduction to what we have now (scribble-written on Friday, 17th June, 2016).

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classicsoncall

I don't think I've ever used the word hideous in any of my reviews, but as they say, there's always a first time. If this wasn't a career low for Robert Vaughn I couldn't tell you what was. Any single episode of Vaughn and McCallum battling agents of THRUSH qualify for Masterpiece Theater compared to this travesty. I still can't wrap my head around the guy in the cave watching the events of the picture transpire as he solemnly comments on the warlike history of the world. Honestly, it's impossible to describe how awful this thing is, or even identify the single worst element. Right up there though would be the German Officer reject from 'Hogan's Heroes', the awesome 'Nazi Bitch', and the Fuehrer himself, Adolf Hitler making a command appearance, because after all, it's all about the resurrection of the Fourth Reich and cloning of the New Master Race. Vaughn karate chops his way through much of the film until he's forced to fight HIMSELF in the final moments. Seriously, this is so laughably bad you can't even laugh while watching because you'll be utterly transfixed by the nonsense. I probably shouldn't warn you about all this because if I had to suffer through it, probably you should to. That's the best recommendation I can come up with.

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FieCrier

The trivia says this movie was never released to theaters, and I believe it. It's pretty bad.It doesn't help that there's some sort of frame story involving a guy sitting inexpressively in front of a bank of TV monitors, watching a library of all the videos ever recorded (or something like that). He muses to himself in voice-over how there is more about wars than anything else. Most of the movie is something he's watching about a war in 1986 (or 96?). That story doesn't start until about twenty minutes in; probably once you realize how long the opening drags, you'll fast forward judiciously like I did.A bunch of important people are killed on a bus. Robert Vaughn's character investigates, after he watches a belly dancer in a bar. He finds a camp of Nazis and is captured, and they try to convince him he never saw the Nazis. It turns out they're cloning world leaders, and the women in the camp help Vaughn fight the Nazis. That might sound sort of exciting, but it's not terribly engrossing at all, and it doesn't help that they keep cutting back to the guy watching all of this on video.Not recommended at all. This is the sort of movie that would be helped by some special features explaining what they were going for with the movie, the trouble with releasing it, etc. I saw it on video, though, an old big box from a closing video store.

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Tim-177

Yes on both counts. It seems that the Nazis are on the rise, this time coming to power by abducting and cloning world leaders. Robert Vaughn turns in a credible performance in this movie, but the pace is uneven. This movie begins with several (too many) minutes of stock scenes from wars, and this sequence could do with some trimming. This is where the pace lags. I would have liked to see more character development. Also, the photography/lighting leave much to be desired; it's too dark and there are shadows all over the place.However, war movies are not interesting to me. That may explain why I was disappointed with this film. If you like the genre, you'll probably enjoy this film.

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