Review of The Boys from Brazil (1978) by Jonathan S — 02 Aug 2009

A decent but not great flick about the plans of Josef Mengele, now a resident of Paraguay, attempts to bring back the glory of Nazi Germany in the 1970s. Interesting idea with a sci-fi bent, but hard to believe that anyone would go to the amount of trouble and time it would take to set up a plan like this one.

Mengele would have to have lived two or three lives to accomplish all this plan implied he did. Performances were tolerable, but I'm still trying to figure out why Steve Guttenberg and John Rubenstein, and even Lilli Palmer as Lawrence Olivier's sister, were there.

All of these roles were so miniscule that the story could have easily been told around them. Just intriguing enough to hold your attention for a couple of hours, nothing more.