Save your money for something good and enjoyable

i must have seen a different film!!

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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).

WARNING, SPOILERS. Despite lurid elements, such as Nazi cloning and a bull-dyke prison matron, this one is cold beans, snuffed out by dawdling pace and crummy acting. The opening 20 min. is the framing device: an apocalypse survivor with his own techno cave watches blurry video of past wars and rock festivals while he philosophizes in a monotone on Man's History. Eventually, and it's a mighty long eventually, we realize he's watching "Lucifer Complex." Then it's Robert Vaughn Vs. the Nazis. Vaughn uncovers a compound where chubby "Uberfuhrer Frobe" (!) is creating a master race, most of whom seem to be women cast from the checkout line at a Piggly Wiggly. Johnny Quest-type caper music with plenty of bongos plays over the action. This is Career Hell for Vaughn, Keenan Wynn, and Aldo Ray (who is barely given "Uh-huh" to speak.) Whatever they were paid, it wasn't enough. Filmmaker incompetence provides enough laughs to get you through its 91 minutes: ... underpopulated action scenes, with the same 5 or 6 Nazis getting shot or punched out, over and over ...Middle-aged Vaughn taking out younger opponents with catlike karate chops ... the shag-blonde shooting Nazis, then spitting on them ...Vaughn fires a tank shell at Nazi HQ, and all it does is blow out a window and start a fire ...Adolph Hitler shows up, but he looks more like Mr. Whipple than Der Fuhrer. Pic is like an old stick of gum you find at the back of your suitcase. It's crummy but you stay with it. Anyway, I did.

Poor Robert Vaughan. Perhaps he did this for the money though as the budget wasn't that large one can't imagine he got that much. It begins with an almost unending scene where the last free man on earth (I think) watches a potted history of the twentieth century (apparently this is meant to be an awful warning about human behaviour) before it begins proper with agent Vaughan in the course of his investigations discovering an island where the Fourth Reich is sending out clones of influential people to take over the world. This might have some entertaining camp value if the film wasn't so slow. Still, any film with a Robert Vaughan clone and an Adolf Hitler clone can't be all bad. There were lots of girls clad in blue dresses whose function escaped me but they were nice to look at. So look at your government leader close. He may be a Nazi clone....

But it has its moments. Not a great sci-fi flick, but not a total waste of time either. I thought the choreography was poorly done, and certain special effects, principally blowing stuff up, weren't done to well. But Robert Vaughn was, as always, cool. The "Nazi bitch" with the bride of Frankenstien hair style was kind of campy. Aldo Ray, and I've always enjoyed his work, didn't have much of a part or come across that well. The premise is okay but the plot, not to mention the characters, is never really developed. And the guy in the cave, watching all of this via computerized film footage? Well, lots of what he sees, which is what we watch with him, took place behind closed doors and in swamps and ... Who was holding the camera? Ahh, nothings perfect. This is OK sci-fi if you don't set your expectations to high. Its worth a watch.