Since World War 2, and after enough time that the world has “healed” from it, there have been movies about Nazis, Hitler, and the atrocities that were documented, or rumored to have happened during that time. NATCOTE is another, almost forgettable movie in this line.
Nazis At The Center Of The Earth starts, as many horror movies about WWII do, with a flashback. The end of the war is upon the Nazis and they are fleeing somewhere-land to escape being killed by the allied forces. A group of Nazis flee on a plane into the night sky carrying a large, what appears to be pressure cooker. [Credits] Present day; a team scientists are in a remote section of the antarctic drilling for core samples when they hit something. Out of no where, they are taken hostage by Nazis. Home base doesn’t hear back from them during a routine check-in, and launch a search and rescue operation.
As the rescue op continues, they find a giant hole in the ice. Inside this hole, the team finds yet another hole. Inside THIS hole, they stumble upon a world under the Earth’s crust. Its lush and full of not only plant life but sun light(?) and, as luck would have it, Nazis doing some dirty Nazi stuff. Not to spoil it, but they are trying to resurrect Hitler. … Mecha-Hitler.
This movie is full of extreme situations. First, Jake Busey plays (I guess) an extremely smart molecular biologist, and that’s just weird. Second it has one of the MOST disturbing abortion scenes I have watched on film. Third, there is an insurmountable level of “willful suspension of disbelief” here. NATCOTE does nothing particularly well, or at least well enough to discuss. The acting is terrible, the writing is forgetable (because honestly, I can’t remember anything about it) and the action is mostly terrible green-screen work. I guess I should also say that this film is from Asylum Films. They are known mostly for terrible “mock-buster” movies. Those movies that are, like just a shade off of the movie that people probably want to see. As an example, they did “Transmorphers” because of “Transformers”. More recently though, they are world famous for being the people behind Sharknado, and Sharknado 2: The Second One.
I’ d like to say that this movie is worth seeing for a laugh, but it’s just barely that. If you and some friends want to watch a terrible movie and pick it apart piece by ill-conceived piece, sure. There IS Mecha-Hitler, and I guess that is something. I dunno. I just feel like this movie could have been more, or less, depending on how you look at it. I just kept waiting for Nathan “Rad” Spencer to show up and Hitler’s head to explode. Neither of which happened, sadly.
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