The Boys from Brazil Movie Review
The Boys from Brazil Review
"The Boys from Brazil" Overview
Rating: R
1978
Cast and Crew
Director : Franklin J. SchaffnerProducer : Stanley O'Toole,Martin Richards
Screenwiter : Heywood Gould
Starring : Gregory Peck,Laurence Olivier,James Mason,Lilli Palmer,Uta Hagen,Steve Guttenberg,Denholm Elliott
A fun curiosity of a movie, from the end of the career of both Peck and Olivier (and Mason, for that matter... okay, and Steve Guttenberg, too). Telling the mysterious tale of Josef Mengele (Peck), who is living in Paraguay in the late 1970s, trying to rebuild the Third Reich, The Boys from Brazil takes a long time to get to its big secret. When you do finally get there, it's a mixture of ahhhhh and huh? that makes the film mostly worthwhile. Have a bit of a laugh at the scientific silliness that the movie revolves around, too.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
