If you've never seen an American soldier (turned Nazi convert, turned 10ft mechanoid spider killing machine) rape his commanding officer this film is for you. The premise of this film is that during the second world war an American covert ops team are sent to Australia with a special machine which would help the war effort. The machine would attack pumas so that the Americans could kill them. Upon activating the machine something goes wrong and all the soldiers are rendered unconscious. So far within the film we have been introduced to an actor who is troupe captain, he's escorting a commander, a stereotypical American jew, an Italian-New Jersey greaseball, and a Texan gun loving hick. The major they are transporting resembles one of the consoles in Dr Who's TARDIS. Upon regaining consciousness they are being attacked by what we later learn are primordial pumas because as it turns out the machine is a time machine, they've travelled back in time 50,000 years to stop Hitler, in Australia still remember!! The commanding officer turns out to be super undercover and his real mission is to recover a flying saucer which had been found during the war but according to scientists had been broken for 50,000 years, the console ' time machine ' was all that could be recovered from the UFO in the present. After sustaining casualties during a giant mosquito attack while the others are distracted the actor somehow opens the spaceship by touching glowing pagan style stones left by aliens. The super undercover commander manages to get on board the spaceship and flies off, back to the future. The remaining soldiers discover that instead of being a super undercover commander the commander is in fact a luftwaffe Nazi medal winner, instead of preventing Hitler's rise to power the aim all along was to help it. Using the machine the actor captain manages to make the machine and them forward in time to 2243 where the Nazi's, who are 10ft tall spider mechaniod killer robots rule. Three of the remaining time travellers come to the decision to take the fight to the Nazi's when the best part of the film unfolded.... The credits, thank Jeebus this is over!!The CGI/animation in this film is so cheap and low budget that is laughable, I was almost embarrassed for the film. The pumas looked hand drawn by a child and the future Nazi stronghold looked like it had been pinched from a command and conquer game from the PC in the early 90's. This film was supposed to be based on a book, I found myself wondering if the book was as bad. The film finished on a cliff hanger introducing a potential sequel, believe me, I won't be rushing out to watch that. I managed to watch this to the end because at times there was promise but this promise was never realised, characters developed a little but not enough for me to want to care about them, in this film or the sequel. I know this was supposed to be low budget and indie but for me it was wide of the mark to make it a cult movie, give me "Iron Sky" or "Dead Snow" any time.

"The 25th Reich" was no groundbreaking blessing to the world of cinema, no doubt about it. But this movie is actually so far out there and so cheesy that it was fun to watch.The story is about a group of American soldiers who are sent into the Australian wilderness to track down and capture (or kill, if necessary) two escaped pumas that serve as troop mascots. Carrying with them, they have a strange apparatus that is to lure in these giant felines. Once the apparatus is turned on, the soldiers find themselves transported 50.000 years back into the future, where they learn about the true plan of the mission; to find and secure a crashed UFO to use against Hitler's forces back in 1943.Right, well this was weird enough, wasn't it? But it gets better. But before you read on, I should point out that story spoilers are about to follow.With the apparatus shot to pieces by an undercover Nazi soldier, the Americans are stuck in the past. But through the use of alien telepathy, they manage to fix the apparatus and get it working, sending them back into the future. However, they are 300 years off target and end up in 2243, where they find out that the Nazis have won World War II (most likely with the use of the recovered UFO) and have conquered the world, building a massive army of UFOs. Apparently humans are obsolete, and the Nazis are now huge spider-like machines.Storywise, then "The 25th Reich" is definitely one of the most campy and cheesy stories I have witnessed. It just screamed B-movie all over. But it was done so well and so goofy that the movie was actually fun and worth watching.I will say that the robotic spider-like Nazis were actually quite cool and were made very well, where as the rest of the CGI in the movie could have been better.One of the things that really had me cracked up was when they returned back to the future, but missing by 300 years, and returned to the exact location where they had first gone back 50.000 years. The army jeep that they had left there was still in pristine condition, without any rust, decay or damage after having sat 300 years out in the Australian wilderness. It was just hilarious.The characters in the movie were quite out there as well, as they were rather caricatured in extreme ways. But these overly done quirks were actually helping along the movie, because it added flavor to the characters. And the people hired to play these characters were doing good jobs, even though they had one outrageous storyline and script to work with.And as if giant robotic spider-like Nazis weren't enough, then there is also a massive swarm of huge mosquitoes, because we all know that the world was infested by mosquitoes the size of small dogs 50.000 years ago - evolution just made them smaller and more annoying.Topping it off, that would have to be the anal probing scene. Yeah, there were such a scene in the movie too. A soldier getting probed by a giant robotic spider-like Nazi, whilst it is actually doing humping motions. That just had be laughing so hard that I almost spilled my drink."The 25th Reich" is good entertainment if you enjoy campy, goofy and cheesy movies where nothing is barred. This movie is outrageous in concept, idea and execution.

a B movie. unrealistic adventures, pieces of Sci Fi, almost nice special effects and Australia of beautiful images. not bad because it is out of ambitions.not original because the recipes is to old to be impressive. only kind of craft. charming in few scenes, boring in another, fake in all. but not waste of time. first, for who loves this kind of gems from another age of cinema. than - for the hunters of low budget movies in which drops of craziness of a scriptwriter is essential. in fact, it is only fruit of breaking news, need of new sensations and passion for conspiracies. and, with this virtues, it can be bearable.

As a kid, I loved to watch old war movies. I still do! And back then, there seemed to be a never ending supply of them. Many of them, I later found out, made by B-movie specialist Sam Fuller. The 25th Reich took me back to those days. It is a film that seems to have been made with a desire to rekindle those nostalgic feelings, while also slipping off to places that the 50's war pics would never have dreamed of going, mainly due to 50's censorship. Set in Australia in 1943, a small unit of G.I.'s are tasked with tracking down some escaped pumas only to discover that they've been duped and their mission has a totally different purpose... Sam Fuller meets 50s science fiction pulp! Crazy stuff I admit, and I had a smile on my face all the way through it. Initially, I thought some of the acting and FX were coming across as a bit cheesy, but then I realised the filmmakers were deliberately echoing the spirit of the films of that era. I'm not sure if the younger generation will necessarily make that connection, but I sure did. Without a large budget, the filmmakers seem determined to throw everything they could at the screen, but not to cover up their lack of resources. They did it because they wanted to. They did it to make a film that was good and fun. With a nice sense of tongue in cheek bravado about it, they really delivered. I wasn't fully sure what to expect, and it took me a bit by surprise, but in a good way. Sam Fuller isn't really dead. His spirit just moved Down Under!