The 25th Reich (2012)

How sad is this?

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

People who are complaining about this movies just don't understand that is meant to be this way. The movie is one of the most horrible movies i've ever seen ( and i have seen "Age of the Hobbits" ) but it has his charme when you see an giant Nazi spider crawling over the mountain. Also the acting and sudden plot twist are an pleasure to watch and will shock you! ( i hope )On the other hand their are some scene's where the filter is just not correct. I looks like the cameramen had used too much purple filters. Also the movie is an slow starter but when the nazi's arrive the tempo will go up. All with All i enjoyed watching it and i really hope they will bring out an new one with an bigger budget.My advise! Get some friends together, buy lots of beer and have an great evening.

Hahaaa, did I like this flick. there's a lot out these days that brings you back to the old B-flicks from the good ol' days. Iron Sky (2012) was one example but this one hits it all.The way the acting was done surely brought me back to Lee Marvin (the cigar anyone) and those classic thespians. The way it was shot brought me more to the old school parade. Yes, this was big fun. Even as it isn't politic correct when the Nazi robots did came in. What they are saying could offend people but don't take it all too serious. It's still a big joke. And there's a lot of cheesy CGI but it works out fine here because it can't be taken seriously. And it did remind me of time travelling with the army in The Final Countdown (1980). Did I had fun and laughter here. But I do understand that a lot of 'casual' viewers won't understand it but for the geeks out there of B-flicks, whatever they saying, pick this one up.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 1/5

You get the cardboard cut-outs of a group of characters in this. You have the good guy, the bad guy, the crazy guy and the rookie(s). The budget is so small that the first time the guys are lifting something "heavy" (a machine, that plays a big role, who'd have thought that? Yes, everybody!), it is really painfully obvious that what they're lifting is pretty lightweight.There is some nice CGI, but the story is more than predictable (apart from one or maybe two little twists that is). I'm not sure what to think of that ending either. There is one scene there, that will disturb people a lot (depending on what they're used to take in ... no pun intended)!

It's difficult to know what the film-makers were trying to achieve here. One minute it wants to be a serious low-budget sci-fi, next an homage to 50's B movies, next it's a parody, then a comedy, etc. And the trouble is, you get the impression that if it would have stuck to one of those genres, it wouldn't have been half bad.Because ironically enough, there is actually some good acting on show here from most of the cast, in spite of the vast majority of the them being slightly too old for their various roles, and the lack of a clearly defined tone for the movie. This is notwithstanding Jak Wyld's appalling attempt at a 'good old boy southern US drawl' for the character of Cpl Updike, which continuously lapses into his native Australian, detracting terribly from any semblance of the suspension of belief one manages to muster, particularly given the way it flips from genre-to-genre. Clearly Wyld can act, but he quite clearly can't do a consistent Yank accent, which makes one think that a few additional takes might have yielded a better result; something the director should perhaps have considered, instead of rushing to get it in the can, which certainly only adds to the problems this movie has.Similarly, there is decent camera-work and art direction on show for the many scenes, much of it referencing well-known war movies in a clever way if you are familiar with them, but then we come to the not-quite-so-special, special effects, which only serve to jar terribly with the good camera work. It's tempting to imagine that these effects are intended to be self-referentially bad as an homage to the 1950's era B-movies which the 25th Reich is obviously attempting to channel, but the trouble is, they are neither cheesy enough, nor convincing enough as to be either an in-joke or a serious attempt at persuading us of either intent.In fairness, one or two effects are pretty good. Similarly one or two are cheesy enough to almost convince us it was a deliberate attempt to 'do a Plan 9 from Outer Space', but the majority fall firmly between these two stools and the end result is that it just looks like bad film-making.As if these gripes were not enough of a problem, some scenes are appalling misjudged, notably one which was obviously intended to be an (ill-advised) humorous reference to the rape-scene in the movie Deliverance, but instead (of course) ends up being simply in very bad taste indeed. Not to mention the fact that it sticks out like a sore thumb as far as the rest of the movie's tone is concerned, especially when the movie is already having problems in this area.Comparisons with Iron Sky - largely because of the Nazi 'what if?' subject material - will doubtless be drawn, however, where Iron Sky succeeds massively in hitting its target, the 25th Reich is a film which attempts to mash up a few genres and ends up doing a disservice to all of them. There are flashes of genuine talent here from the director and indeed some of the cast and production crew, which leads one to imagine that we might expect great things from some of those involved in this thing, but this movie isn't one of them.