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.
I was a Hollywood actor for some 20 years from 1982 to 2001. I lived on Hollywood Boulevard (the famous street with all the stars embedded in the sidewalk) and I had the famous Hollywood Sign outside my residential hotel window.
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.
Near-abominable tale of an intelligence agent (Vaughn) assigned by his boss (Leo Gordon, uncredited) to infiltrate an island outpost where he discovers a shocking plot to clone world leaders in an audacious plan to resurrect the Fourth Reich, forty years following the end of WWII.Vaguely reminiscent of its contemporary "Boys From Brazil" has a great cast that aside from Vaughn sleep-walking through his role, includes Keenan Wynn, Aldo Ray, the lovely Lynn Cartwright (in a distinctly unlovely role as a sadistic Nazi), Kieu Chinh as a female prisoner, Victoria Carroll as a double agent and Corinne Cole ("The Party") in a frivolous bit part as a potential one-night stand, though our secret agent is so inept, he manages one corny pick-up line ("you need less bump and more grind"), before duty calls.
"An intelligence agent is set off to investigate events surrounding some of the world's leaders and he comes to a shocking discovery. A plot by former Nazi scientists to clone the world's leaders, in order to return the Third Reich to power, has been undertaken and he must try to stop them from completing their evil plans.
I don't think I've ever used the word hideous in any of my reviews, but as they say, there's always a first time. If this wasn't a career low for Robert Vaughn I couldn't tell you what was.
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.
This is a garbage movie, that had enough of a budget to hire some name actors, pay for sets and some explosions, camera equipment, crew and editing facilities. A true and shameful example of bottom feeder.
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.
