The Boys from Brazil

Anyone ever check up on these kids playing Hitler clones just to make sure ??

Classic. Watch this just to see Steve Guttenberg killed. Worth the price of admission alone.

Really mucks the bed toward the end. I was with them to a point but as the movie concludes, the straight-lacedness that leant its build-up credence begins to detract. Too much exposition leads to a boring final act. Pity. Almost.

It's about a war, but it takes place over thirty years after that war. Its characters engage in conspiracies and espionage, but none are actual government spies. It's also technically a sci-fi film. The thing is, explaining how would diffuse the freshness of the plot's surprises, but the point is that, whatever else you can say about it, it's not the least bit boring.

I was under the impression this was a classic movie, some chills, some thrills and some crazy Nazis. It's TERRIBLE. Everyone's hamming it up except the script never goes into a higher gear. There's too much moral navel gazing and getting Olivier where he needs to go, when there should be snappy action and a sense of impending doom. By the end you're sitting there thinking, you Nazi dick your plan never had me worried, you deserve this anticlimactic end.

The tense story blends a few facts and a lot of fiction together to conjure up a new Nazi rise from the ashes with many escaped Nazi war criminals, including the infamous Nazi death camp doctor Joseph Mengele (who evaded capture until his death). Somehow, the group holds onto their Nazi loyalty including their enduring reverence for Hitler. Their dark secret agenda is slowly revealed. Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier are both excellent but sometimes overly dramatic. It ends like a bad omen.

I liked this. It wasn't an amazing film, but it was an interesting idea with some good actors involved. Extra points for taking the time to actually explain how cloning works (even today), I thought that was rather cool as a biology major.

I'm gonna have a hard time defending why I enjoyed this so much, but enjoy it I did.

One of the oddest films I have seen. If not for all the talent involved with the making of this film it might have been just another campy 70's flick. But Schaffner seems to have had different plans - and ambitions. Some old Hollywood stars in a very unusual roles. Honestly, I loved this film.

Schaffner screwed this one up. Ira Levin's text is just silly, the cast is a disaster (Olivier and Peck are hammy and play inflated stereotypes, and Steve Guttenberg is particularly awful), dead bodies visibly blink, Jerry Goldsmith's score is literally pathetic and over-anxious at the most leisurely moments, even the photography and makeup are bad. Still, for all its faults the movie achieves a cartoonish quality that lends it at least some entertainment value.

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In an era where most sci-fi had a childish edge to it, "The Boys From Brazil" has a dark premise and was very grounded in modern times. It's more like a suspense movie with a big imagination and imagination in a movie is never something to be complained about.

Presumably cloning and who the "boys" are was some kind of exciting surprise for early readers of the novel, but the only reason I wanted to watch this was because I knew who the "boys" were (as did most movie goers I assume) & wanted to see what was done with the "high concept" idea. The problem is that the movie's actually a mystery built around revealing who the "boys" are & so if you already know, you spend more than half the movie waiting for what you already know to arrive.

WOW! So glad I finally watched this one. Though a bizarre plot, the performances were outstanding. Olivier won an Academy Award, but I would have gone with Gregory Peck. You've never seen him like this.

A very strange one, this. It's like a straight-laced version of a Gilliam adventure.

This impressed me a lot when I was a kid. Could be I rated it otherwise now.

"The Boys from Brazil" is a very tight and sadly overlooked latter-day offering from Franklin J. Schaffner, who conducts this gripping tale the best way possible. The story unfolds in great fashion and the cast is grand, including memorable performances from an utterly enjoyable Laurence Olivier and a surprisingly menacing Gregory Peck. Utterly memorable.

loved the concept. film builds nicely in the first half, but you can see where it's going to wind up from a mile away. olivier and peck were awesome. mengele's south american getaway house looked so amazingly peaceful with its terraces and french doors and lakeside view i would love to vacation in a house like that.

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Schaffner knows how to keep things moving, Olivier is superb as the aging Nazi hunter, and Atticus Finch really, really enjoys playing a famous superbad Nazi for a change.

It has a pretty good concept going for it, but I don't think the plot was so amazing that they had to wait until near the end to reveal exactly what was happening. I'd really like to see somebody take this story and turn it into a schlocky exploitation movie. Because when I hear "Nazi hunter vs. Josef Mengele in Paraguay" I don't think of a reserved dramatic movie with Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier.

Hiding out in Paraguay, Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) sets in motion a plan to create the Fourth Reich using clones of Hitler. A Jewish Nazi hunter (Laurence Olivier) must try and defeat him. It's a batshit premise, and doesn't stand up to much scrutiny, but taken as pure fantasy (how else can you take it?), it's quite entertaining in its own pulpy way, thanks in large part to Peck's hammy villainy and Olivier's bizarre sincerity. Solidly directed, but the production feels vaguely underpopulated.

Lawrence Oliver was a joy to watch, and the premise was very interesting. Overall though, the film was more campy (especially the score) than I'd like a thriller to be. Still a good movie. Just not the right tone to be any better.

It starts off a bit slow, and the ending's a little easy to see coming, but still a good deal of fun to watch. Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier were excellent as Dr. Mengele and the main Nazi hunter, respectfully.

A slow burn to start. For 1978, this was pretty intelligent sci-fi. Unfortunately, the move never really climaxes in any significant way and the ending can be seen quite a bit ahead. I have to give this a somewhat higher score than I migh have just based on the fact that we get Peck, Olivier and Mason in one film

"Now, if only Uta Hagen and Rosemary Harris were rolling on the floor next to them, Boys From Brazil would have been an bigger scream." - Ed Gonzalez

Started off pretty haphazardly; save for Steve Guttenberg's death. Then the movie gradually evolves into all kinds of awesomeness. The entire third act is practically flawless and Larry Olivier has got some range indeed.

Schaffner is not the right director for this material. What could've worked as a trashy thriller stinks of self-importance and respectable actors like Peck and Olivier overdo their performances in a way that has a certain degree of camp-value - but the whole film grates under the feeling that everybody strives for greatness when they should've kept it fun. It is moderately entertaining, though. And the premise is engrossing.

Something about this movie just doesn't allows me to be completely pleased with it but it's a "classic".

Gregory Peck as a Nazi, a truckload of big arsed dogs and 94 Adolf Hitlers. And you don't want to watch this why???

Great film.