Very disappointed :(
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
View MoreThis is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
View MoreBlistering performances.
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.
View MoreIt's the end of World War II. Amid a shootout between American soldiers and his own troops, Dr. Josef Mengele escapes Germany in a plane with something in a weird-looking machine. Flash forward to modern day Antarctica where scientists Paige and Mark are out on the ice drilling for core samples, when they uncover the (surprisingly well-preserved) Nazi plane Mengele escaped in.Suddenly gas mask Nazis! The Nazis politely but firmly insist they come with them. And by politely I mean they clobber Mark and kidnap him and Paige, then throw a potato masher grenade to destroy the drill, the plane and the scientists' snowmobile. Except - it's an energy grenade! Boom! The evidence vanishes in a CGI explosion.They awaken in a dark cell somewhere. Nazi soldiers in gas masks come and take Mark away, where he ends up strapped to a table with our pal Dr. Mengele (who hasn't aged a day!), who surgically removes his face because reasons.Back at the scientists' base camp, we meet Paige's kinda sorta boyfriend, the flannel-shirted microbiologist Lucas, who butts heads with chief scientist, the very, very blonde Dr. Reistad (Jake Busey and his horse teeth) who is very much an ends-justifies-the-means kinda guy with a bad track record of losing his teams in reckless endeavors. The other scientists include Reistad's Norwegian mountain climber girlfriend Silje, Brian, Jewish scientist Blechman, curly-haired Rahul, May, and finally Angela.When Paige and Mark don't report in, they all pile into a sno-cat an drive off looking for them. They find the destroyed plane and stuff and follow the footprints that their friends' kidnappers helpfully left for them, which end at a great wonkin' hole which they climb down.Back in Nazi Land, Paige escapes her cell and discovers that Mark has been skinned (!) and his face has been transplanted onto Nazi soldier Hoederer. She's recaptured and Mengele is about to do something really nasty with a saw, until he realizes she's of German descent as well as a doctor, and is extremely interested in what she has to say about modern medicine.Meanwhile, the others discover Nazi Land is at the center of the Earth (just like the title) and consists of a gigantic cavern with a jungle and a huge artificial sun. They head towards some buildings and go inside the first one they come across and get surrounded by Nazis in gas masks, and then Mengele appears with Paige in a Nazi uniform. She's one of them now! And so is Reistad! Who knew the jerkish blonde guy with the Teutonic name was gonna turn into a Nazi!Mengele reveals he and his men are basically undead, kept alive by organ and tissue transplants, but they still keep rotting. He enlists the assistance of the captured scientists to help solve the problem of them decaying. Except Blechman. Upon learning he's Jewish, Mengele blasts him out of existence with his laser-firing Walther P38. 'Cause he's a dick like that.Can the others escape?!Ugh!It's like Wolfenstein and Iron Sky had a twisted mutant baby. One without a decent budget. Containing such cheerful things as a fetal abortion with a vacuum cleaner, zombie gang-rape, and two scenes of someone having their face ripped off, plus Robo-Hitler (!), Jake Busey as a mad scientist, zombies melting from being injected with flesh-eating bacteria, and a laser-firing Walther P38 that completely disintegrates people. I dunno if the movie is offensive, stupid, hilarious, disgusting, or somehow crazy- awesome... or all of the above. Did I mention zombie gangbang?
View MoreNow, I heard there was going to be an Adolf robot in this film developed by Dr. Mengele, so I had to watch just to see that.These Nazis that live under the Antarctic have their own sun and grow their own food. That's the Sci Fi part of this film that crosses genres. But, we can't immediately dismiss this as there are many who believe in Agartha, a legendary city that is said to reside in the earth's core.In their effort to establish a New World Order, a lot of blood is spilled.Ray guns, a spaceship, and a robot Hitler. Oh, what fun!Sometimes you just have to wonder what kind of mind comes up with these pictures, and why they get made.
View Moreas far as b-movie credibility, seeing Jake Busey's name connected with the film is an indication that it should not be taken seriously. that said, this film should not be taken seriously. if you have a fetish for Nazi-anything, it's a fun little hour and a half. the acting is surprisingly good, but the direction is not that great. let's face it: it's a movie about Nazis at the center of the earth. what you see is what you get on this one. i would go so far as to include this in some sort of "bad movie night" with a Nazi theme. the worst part about this is that it's not as bad as one would like to think. the writing isn't worthy of any awards, but it's not the worst thing ever. the direction isn't Oscar-worthy, yet the substance doesn't have much to work with i the first place. they get it done. whether-or-not they should have is up for debate."... why did they make this?" is what i would like to know.
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