Keohane, who played a deputy in “Halloween Kills” and was one of the stars (with actor-director Blattenberger) of “Point Man,” isn’t incompetent, but is nobody’s idea of a charismatic leading man. The movie’s credits had me thinking “ Jackson Rathbone aged…oddly.” But no, Rathbone, like Michael Ironside, Urbaniak and Davison, is Just Another Nazi in this production. But this American pretending to be Swiss (don’t ask) is more determined than she is, which is how they all end up in the foothills of the Andes. There’s no point in complaining how bad Bach is, and invoking Himmler doesn’t move her. That’s also where he crosses swords and pistols with Israeli agent Leyna ( Corinne Britti) who wants to kidnap Vogel back to Israel to stand trial. That’s how he crosses paths with the Nazi A-bomb expert Vogel ( Al Pagano) who promises to lead him to this Col. That logic is how he winds up in Argentina, kidnapping, torturing and murdering Nazis left and right, hunting down his quarry. “You sit at a table with Nazis, that makes you a Nazi!” Spalding reminds us all how simple politics can be. Corporal-not-Captain Spaulding (Jacob Keohane) will go to the ends of the Earth - South America - to track that bastard down in the decade after the war. A long opening sequence reveals how our hero witnessed the rest of his downed B-17 crew murdered, as prisoners, by a sneering, luger-lugging SS officer played by veteran heavy Arnold Visloo. The film starts out as a post World War II vengeance tale.
He wants to be the Uwe Boll of combat cinema.
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With this movie and his disastrous stab at Vietnam (“Point Man”), Blattenberger’s ambitions become clear. It’s nuts, not quite funny enough, but as daft as writer-director Phil Blattenberger could make it.
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In a couple of campy scenes acted-out in full Nazi regalia, nerdy-quirky character actor James Urbaniak (“Henry Fool,” “Fay Grim” and “The Girl from Monday” came long before “The Fabelmans”) as Himmler and Bruce Davison (“Ben,” “The X-Men”) as his Nazi subordinate bicker and banter in “Cabaret” German about ancient Atlanteans in South America and their “big Aryan” skulls.Īnd then for its last trick, the movie leaps from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” to “The Wild Bunch.” The climax begins as “The Boys from Brazil,” finding high and low ranking Nazis holed up in postwar Nazi-friendly Bolivia, a “Condor’s Nest” ruled over by no less than former SS chief Heinrich Himmler, whom history reminds us died in Allied custody. One just mustn’t.īut as I’m breaking format here and using the poster to “Condor’s Nest” as there is no art out there on the Interwebs that truly does justice to the feast of character actors this C-movie serves up, here’s a taste.
It’s not cricket to talk about a film’s third act and finale in a review, because that could lead to “spoilers” and one mustn’t reveal those.
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