Leofwine_draca
NAZIS AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is another dead-headed adventure story from The Asylum. It was made as a rip-off of IRON SKY with a bit of JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH added to the mix. A bunch of uninteresting scientist types decide to drill down into the ground but instead find a bunch of zombified Nazis hiding out there. They're subsequently menaced and variously bumped off by the resurrected Reich members. Dominique Swain is dullish as the protagonist, but Jake Busey does his best in a fun-but-predictable supporting role. The film has a distinctly more adult tone than many Asylum flicks, with nudity and some rather nasty torture and gore sequences, but it only really gets fun at the ridiculous climax with the robot Hitler.
Alessandro Rossi
First, I love loony Sci-fi movies that are so bad they are good. This is not the case. It is plainly awful with no joy at all. I don't mind the far-fetched plot: literally, Nazis in a secret underground base at Antartica using some captured research doctors to rejuvenate their decaying bodies before going to conquer the world. In fact, it called my attention.However, the acting is disgustingly bad. The actors have the ability of a brick; honestly, they should be fired from the actor's unions. The script is plainly stupid, full of ridiculous scenes, absurd developments, poor dialog. The CGI special effects are like a computer game from the 90's. Compared to this, Doug McClure's movies from the 70's deserve an Oscar. Do yourself a favor and avoid this piece of crap at all cost. Not even for free.
Theo Robertson
When you've got The Asylum film company making a movie about Nazis in general and Dr Josef Mengele in particular you know you're not going to be watching anything less than car crash film making . A tasteless subject for cinema ? Certainly but we all remember that film where Laurence Olivier took on Gregory Peck's Josef Mengele which contained some of the most amusing dialogue heard in a 1970s movie . Okay the dialogue wasn't supposed to be amusing but any film containing Nazi despots that causes the audience to laugh out loud can only be a good thing . Would we be getting the same thing here ? To its credit this is not a film that can be described as boring . The premise of " Nazi zombies led by Mengele holding human experiments in the Antartic " isn't a film you see everyday and the grotesque tone of the film is very consistent . It's never a camp or jokey affair and takes itself very seriously which isn't necessarily a bad thing . After all if someone gets their brains pulled out or skinned alive by a Nazi doctor do we need a punchline ? It's certainly not a film that makes for pleasant viewing but no doubt the producers were aware of that and have resisted the temptation to make a blackly comical bad taste movie . Instead they've made a rather nasty exploitation movie centering around Nazi war criminals that while not being to everyones's taste does hold the attention
Movie Lover
Wow! What did I just watch?I recall zombie robot Hitler, imagine Hitlers head on a mini Optimus Prime body, I'm calling him Optimus Hitler, and with the incredible gift of sub par Playstation 2 graphical power he attempts to take over all non Aryan countries by dropping flesh eating bacterial bombs from his flying Nazi saucer
yes you read that correctlyA flying Nazi saucer which emerges from the center of the Earth no less, now I'm no expert on geology but I do know the center of the Earth is roughly 4000 miles below the Earths surface, I only bring this up as our "heroes" and I use the term heroes lightly as this group is as forgettable as a week old cheese sandwich left out in the sun, journey down a shaft that is nowhere near 4000 miles, perhaps 2 miles if I'm being very generous.A CGI snow-cat vehicle (surely renting a real one would have been more cost effective)A Wilhelm scream in opening skirmish, I call it a skirmish but it was really just four guys in a row shooting at a few other guys with no actual sense that they were shooting at each other, like watching one sided tennis, watch it and see.. Actually just watch grass grow instead.A zombie Nazi gang rape (just an excuse to get gratuitous boob shots in) and whatever happened to that girl? Did they kill her afterward? It all seemed so unnecessary and left a nasty taste in mouth."Saw" type torture porn scenes with the most efficient face peeling in history.I'm no expert on the fine art of peeling someone's face off but I imagine an incision across the forehead followed by a quick pull would not allow a face to come off unspoilt and then be stitched onto another head, it wasn't like that in "Face Off" which segues nicely into Dominique Swain who starred in that and whose career has gone so far down the toilet that Jake Buseys teeth act her off the screen here. Her character is hilariously inconsistent, she's hero-villain-hero, actually the only consistent thing is her bad acting.I actually enjoyed the last twenty minutes when Optimus Hitler shows up, one of our "heroes" attempts a daring escape by jogging away very slowly and is decapitated by Optimus Hitler in an unintentionally hilarious scene.The final battle is so naff that I couldn't help but smile, after Optimus Hitlers saucer crashes by aid of Jake Busey suddenly turning from villain to hero, presumably because the script told him to, we get a final face off between Optimus Hitler and Dominique Swain's bad acting. And if this film taught me anything its that the nastiest of evil is no match for unconvincing acting as Optimus Hitler sinks into the Antarctic waters immediately followed by Dominique Swain accepting a marriage proposal from some forgettable guy
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.after fighting a Nazi robot zombie Hitler. As movies from Global Asylum productions go this wasn't the worst, but that's akin to saying that stale biscuits are tastier than moldy bread