Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Jonathon Dabell 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. The Lucifer Complex bears all the hallmarks of a film that hasn't been fully completed, with irrelevant stock footage and additional scenes crudely inserted into the existing material in a desperate bid to cobble together a releasable film. Alas, everything is so clumsily done and so achingly inept that one is left wishing that the film hadn't been released at all.In the near future, an explorer on an island discovers a hidden cave containing computers full of old archives. After watching some war footage, he stumbles upon a film showing the adventures of a secret agent on a top secret mission. The agent Glenn Manning (Robert Vaughn) is sent to investigate something called the "Lucifer Problem". Manning crash lands on a remote island and discovers a camp emblazoned with Nazi swastikas, run by a gang of neo-Nazis. The island natives are kept as slaves, and a group of women are held prisoner there too. Manning soon discovers that the women's bodies are being used to give birth to genetically cloned foetuses of various world leaders. He befriends April (Merrie Lynn Ross), one of the women held in the camp, and together they try to stop the sinister plot. Their quest doesn't become any easier when they learn that their Nazi enemies have succeeded in cloning Adolf Hitler himself! Very little of The Lucifer Complex makes sense. For one thing, if our explorer is watching all this as if it is actual archived footage of a spy mission, then who the hell do we suppose filmed it all?? In fact, the whole explorer subplot seems suspiciously unrelated to the film and one is left convinced that it has been included as an afterthought to stretch the film's running time a little, and perhaps as an attempt to provide a way of linking the rather choppy main narrative. Vaughn tries to give a professional performance in the midst of all this, but his efforts are continually shot down by the very non-professional work behind the cameras. The characters are completely uninvolving, the audio poor, the camera work hopelessly wobbly, and the action sequences incompetently edited. Sometimes this sort of film becomes a cult favourite amongst collectors of bad movies (Plan 9 From Outer Space, Robot Monster, etc.) but this one slumps way below the level of "so-bad-it's-good". It is abysmal, pure and simple. It would receive a minus rating if this were possible, and even that would be generous!

davepitts WARNING, SPOILERS. Despite lurid elements, such as Nazi cloning and a bull-dyke prison matron, this one is cold beans, snuffed out by dawdling pace and crummy acting. The opening 20 min. is the framing device: an apocalypse survivor with his own techno cave watches blurry video of past wars and rock festivals while he philosophizes in a monotone on Man's History. Eventually, and it's a mighty long eventually, we realize he's watching "Lucifer Complex." Then it's Robert Vaughn Vs. the Nazis. Vaughn uncovers a compound where chubby "Uberfuhrer Frobe" (!) is creating a master race, most of whom seem to be women cast from the checkout line at a Piggly Wiggly. Johnny Quest-type caper music with plenty of bongos plays over the action. This is Career Hell for Vaughn, Keenan Wynn, and Aldo Ray (who is barely given "Uh-huh" to speak.) Whatever they were paid, it wasn't enough. Filmmaker incompetence provides enough laughs to get you through its 91 minutes: ... underpopulated action scenes, with the same 5 or 6 Nazis getting shot or punched out, over and over ...Middle-aged Vaughn taking out younger opponents with catlike karate chops ... the shag-blonde shooting Nazis, then spitting on them ...Vaughn fires a tank shell at Nazi HQ, and all it does is blow out a window and start a fire ...Adolph Hitler shows up, but he looks more like Mr. Whipple than Der Fuhrer. Pic is like an old stick of gum you find at the back of your suitcase. It's crummy but you stay with it. Anyway, I did.

Kenneth Eagle Spirit But it has its moments. Not a great sci-fi flick, but not a total waste of time either. I thought the choreography was poorly done, and certain special effects, principally blowing stuff up, weren't done to well. But Robert Vaughn was, as always, cool. The "Nazi bitch" with the bride of Frankenstien hair style was kind of campy. Aldo Ray, and I've always enjoyed his work, didn't have much of a part or come across that well. The premise is okay but the plot, not to mention the characters, is never really developed. And the guy in the cave, watching all of this via computerized film footage? Well, lots of what he sees, which is what we watch with him, took place behind closed doors and in swamps and ... Who was holding the camera? Ahh, nothings perfect. This is OK sci-fi if you don't set your expectations to high. Its worth a watch.

Tim-177 Yes on both counts. It seems that the Nazis are on the rise, this time coming to power by abducting and cloning world leaders. Robert Vaughn turns in a credible performance in this movie, but the pace is uneven. This movie begins with several (too many) minutes of stock scenes from wars, and this sequence could do with some trimming. This is where the pace lags. I would have liked to see more character development. Also, the photography/lighting leave much to be desired; it's too dark and there are shadows all over the place.However, war movies are not interesting to me. That may explain why I was disappointed with this film. If you like the genre, you'll probably enjoy this film.