Review of The Boys from Brazil (1978) by Byron B — 16 Dec 2008
Peck is slimy and overacts quite a bit. Olivier plays a very different character than I have seen him play before, but his accent gets a bit annoying and he is really too old to be getting mixed up in this adventure.
This movie has a really weird sci-fi plot about a handful of test-tube babies grown from Adolf Hitler's DNA and placed in environments to try to recreate Hitler's upbringing (making exact copies through nature and nurture).
The same boy acts as three or four young copies of Hitler now in adolescence. It is Peck's scheme with the last few of the Third Reich left to make sure these boys live to adulthood and achieve world dominance with a Fourth Reich.
Olivier is trying to uncover the mystery and stop the Nazi plot. The end is disturbingly more violent and bloody than I expected from a movie starring a sixty year old and a seventy year old.
This review of The Boys from Brazil (1978) was written by Byron B on 16 Dec 2008.
The Boys from Brazil has generally received positive reviews.
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