midge56
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.
udar55
A reviewer here on the IMDb said this is what THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL would look like if directed by Ed Wood and I have to say that assessment is pretty dead on. A young guy wanders around an island before heading into a cave with computers that have history on laserdisc. After checking out WWII and Vietnam, he heads to the "big war" of 1986 and the movie begins proper. Government guy Glen Manning (Robert Vaughn) catches wind of the Fourth Reich when his plane crashes on a small island off the coast of Florida and he finds Nazis working on a clone of Hitler. With the help of April Adams (Merrie Lynn Ross), Manning manages to escape and blows lots of stuff up with a tank and stop the bad guys. The end. Cut back to the guy in the cave who says something like, "Will man ever learn? I've got to explore this island more." Vaughn has a filmography that extends to over 200+ movies and TV series, but I'm going to boldly claim this was the worst thing he has ever been it. It was a production rife with problems and I'd say the Vaughn material amounts for maybe 65 minutes of the 90 minute running time. The wrap around screams of padding and doesn't make a lick of sense (man had the ability to record every single moment on laserdisc?). Keenan Wynn and Aldo Ray show up for a few scenes.
cdleseurs1
I was one of the clones! The curly haired guy in a few scenes behind Robert Vaughn. He didn't say much, just smiled and did what he was told. Many of us were acting students from the Lee Strasberg Drama Institute - so much for method acting. It was filmed across the street from Paramount at a small sound stage we entered through a back alley. They feed us from MacDonalds! I never got paid for it, so I guess I might as well not hold my breath anymore. You'll notice there is a strip across where our private parts would be, so you couldn't see our bathing suits or underwear, and we just grabbed the feeding tubes and stuck them in our navels.
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.