The Lucifer Complex

1978 "The most terrifying plot ever imagined… takeover by clones!"
2.4| 1h31m| en| More Info
Released: 01 January 1978 Released
Producted By: James Flocker Enterprises
Country: United States of America
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An intelligence agent discovers a Nazi plot to revive the Third Reich by using clones.

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Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
neosildrake I must say, that this movie is a total waste of time, money and actors. It's boring and the raised forefinger the director/producer like to show the viewers (about the war and cloning thing) is annoying. I like the actors (Aldo Ray and Robert Vaughn) but they are really wasted here.It could have been a good movie, if... and there are many big IFs here: 1. ...if they had concentrated on the spy/cloning theme. 2. ...if they had not tried to come up with the teaching and forefinger tactics. 3. ...if they had not included the poor lonely human *read the sarcasm here* on the island and had not interrupted the "flow" of the movie with occasional and random scenes of the lone islander and how he watches the recorded data. IT SUCKS!They could have at least cut the first 20 minutes of enormously boring monologue. I first thought I was watching the wrong movie. The only reason this did not get an even lower rating is the fact, that the Nazi-cloning idea itself is quite interesting.Otherwise: Forget it.
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.
Woodyanders I've seen more than my fair share of malodorous cinematic stinkers, so claiming that this horrifically horrendous dud is perhaps the smelliest celluloid skunk I've ever had the grave misfortune to stumble across is say a whole lot. Things get off to an unpromising start with a lone man stranded on a remote island wandering through the woods. His meandering thoughts serve as insufferably tedious narration. The man finds a cave and ventures inside. He discovers a bunch of old computers. He watches about twenty entire minutes worth of stock footage of both World Wars, Woodstock and Vietnam. Sound exciting? Well, trust me it sure ain't. Boring? Most definitely. It's more boring than watching two snails copulate for five hours straight.The story proper finally kicks in and things only get worse. Much, much worse. Poor Robert Vaughn, a long way off from "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," portrays a drippy stuffed shirt bargain basement James Bond-style government secret agent who discovers a nefarious Nazi plot in South America to start a Fourth Reich through cloning. Cranky superior Keenan Wynn huffs and puffs his disapproval. Leo Gordon is shamefully wasted in a nothing bit part as a useless FBI chief. The ubiquitous Aldo Ray pops up as an evil Nazi rat. None other than Hitler himself (badly played by a pitifully unconvincing actor) turns out to be behind the whole thing. Wynn also is revealed as being in cahoots with the Nazis (that's a big surprise -- NOT!). The limp direction by Kenneth Hartford and notorious Grade Z blunder wonder supreme David L. Hewitt (who also co-wrote the stale cookie cutter script), David E. Jackson's ugly, washed-out cinematography, the lethargic pacing, the infrequent and ineptly staged action scenes (the undeniable low point occurs when Vaughn very meekly fights a clone of himself), William Loose's terrible droning slushy score, the crummy acting, and the dreadful tin-eared dialogue ("I think you could do with a little less bump and a lot more grind") are all uniformly abominable. Naturally, this gruelingly godawful ordeal spent two years gathering dust on the shelves before it was purchased by legendary cruddy late-night TV titans Gold Key Entertainment so it could be rerun an endless amount of times at 1:00 a.m. in the morning much to the dismay of insomniacs the world over. This appalling atrocity comes across like a fifth-rate watered-down version of an "Ilsa" picture. The absolute pits.
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.