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Sadly Over-hyped

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Blistering performances.

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).

There is a passable film here but only if you skip watching the beginning "future man in the cave sequence". The boring, monotoned, bearded man watching boring stock footages, while playing with a snake & putting everyone to sleep. This leading footage doesn't even match the film. So do yourself a favor & skip ahead past the cave historical footage review until you see Robert Vaughn Appear. Do the same at the end & you will find a watchable Vaughn film in between.I also found the commentaries of a couple former actors to be quite interesting to read describing what it was like to appear on this film.It is a shame that IMDb tries to coerce our credit card info & access to our other site logins for supposed "additional authorization" despite some of us being members for over a decade. They even wanted us to pay them for us providing them with free photos for the IMDb site. There is something seriously wrong & crooked about their setup.I would send compliments to the actors who commented on this movie but I'm not about to give IMDb any financial or other site login info for additional authorizations they have no business or justification to ask for. They will never got that info from me. It is their loss if my 10+ years membership isn't good enough to contribute my knowledge or correction of errors.Beware of any site or business wanting your financial info or your login access to other sites.As for the movie, just skip over the man in Cave sequence which has no bearing on the movie whatsoever & it will be fairly watchable like one of those Matt Helm flicks.

*Spoiler/plot- 1978, A Government spy is sent to investigate a strange occurrence of why many world diplomats are disappearing during an international meeting. A reborn/cloned Natzi terrorist group in South America has plans for world domination again with a Fourth Reich.*Special Stars- Robert Vaughn, Keenan Wynn, Merrie Lynn Ross, Aldo Ray*Theme- Just when you think the Natzi regime is destroyed, they rise. They are often too virulent for the world's worries.*Trivia/location/goofs- Hitler's clone sounds in his speech, too Jewish. This film was shot in and around Manhattan Beach area.*Emotion- A rather crazy 'stinker' direct–to-TV film with Robert 'Napoleon Solo' Vaughn playing a spy long after his prime. This time not very well without the UNCLE interesting locations, fellow cast members, writing, spy toys, and high production values. Most war-decorated veteran of WW2 Pacific theater turned actor Aldo Ray also tries his worst here. This is a film of has-been actor's sad performances. Yawn-- boring.

Make no mistake about it, The Lucifer Complex is a genuine contender for the title of worst movie ever made. The most remarkable thing is that recognised actors have been persuaded to appear in this dismal offering – it's quite depressing to see the likes of Robert Vaughn, Keenan Wynn and Aldo Ray appearing in such cheap, inept, amateurish rubbish. The Lucifer Complex bears all the hallmarks of a film that hasn't been fully completed, with irrelevant stock footage and additional scenes crudely inserted into the existing material in a desperate bid to cobble together a releasable film. Alas, everything is so clumsily done and so achingly inept that one is left wishing that the film hadn't been released at all.In the near future, an explorer on an island discovers a hidden cave containing computers full of old archives. After watching some war footage, he stumbles upon a film showing the adventures of a secret agent on a top secret mission. The agent Glenn Manning (Robert Vaughn) is sent to investigate something called the "Lucifer Problem". Manning crash lands on a remote island and discovers a camp emblazoned with Nazi swastikas, run by a gang of neo-Nazis. The island natives are kept as slaves, and a group of women are held prisoner there too. Manning soon discovers that the women's bodies are being used to give birth to genetically cloned foetuses of various world leaders. He befriends April (Merrie Lynn Ross), one of the women held in the camp, and together they try to stop the sinister plot. Their quest doesn't become any easier when they learn that their Nazi enemies have succeeded in cloning Adolf Hitler himself! Very little of The Lucifer Complex makes sense. For one thing, if our explorer is watching all this as if it is actual archived footage of a spy mission, then who the hell do we suppose filmed it all?? In fact, the whole explorer subplot seems suspiciously unrelated to the film and one is left convinced that it has been included as an afterthought to stretch the film's running time a little, and perhaps as an attempt to provide a way of linking the rather choppy main narrative. Vaughn tries to give a professional performance in the midst of all this, but his efforts are continually shot down by the very non-professional work behind the cameras. The characters are completely uninvolving, the audio poor, the camera work hopelessly wobbly, and the action sequences incompetently edited. Sometimes this sort of film becomes a cult favourite amongst collectors of bad movies (Plan 9 From Outer Space, Robot Monster, etc.) but this one slumps way below the level of "so-bad-it's-good". It is abysmal, pure and simple. It would receive a minus rating if this were possible, and even that would be generous!