Well this is a strange one. You have to admire the energy that went into making this movie. But you have to ask why? It is very like an Ed Wood's film with higher production values. A movie needs more than enthusiasm and one or two ideas and you need to suppress the impulse too insert scenes that don't advance the story or out right confuse it. The movie tries too capture the feel of old time serials and occasional does but also thinks its Deliverance at times. My main complaint is the lack of an ending. They try to evoke the serial format "In the next episode" but the story just stops and leaves you with a "WTF" FEELING. Bottom line if you have nothing else to do go wash your car. That at least is constructive.

I bought this movie hoping it would be in the same vein as Iron Sky, oh boy was I wrong!

A group of American soldiers head in to the Australian outback to track and kill 5 Pumas carrying a big metal puma detecting box. But once activated the box instead of detecting pumas, it transports the soldiers back in time. Here they are attacked by killer insects and discover a crashed alien spaceship which is stolen by a traitor in their squad.

They use the box to send themselves into the future where not only have the Nazis have won the war but they now plan to launch an attack on the heavens.

This is very a tedious film with the first 30 odd minutes spent vainly trying to build some depth to the characters, instead it just drags on and on and seems intent on showing the soldiers to be stereotypes instead of the homage to 50s sci-fi/war movies that I believe they were supposed to be.

The plot is lacking and plods on until near the end when it actually picks up as it becomes an almost enjoyable B-movie, well that is until one of the soldiers is raped by a Nazi robot spider! The movie finishes on a promise, or should that be threat, of further movies to come.

The acting on the whole is adequate but at times it is so woefully cringe worthy you will be reaching for the remote.

While it does have its moments, I couldn't recommend it and would advise giving it a miss.

THE 25TH REICH appears to be another indie movie heavily promoted by friends and family of the filmmakers who have grossly inflated the film's rating and standing. It's a typical mundane indie with a few imaginative sci-fi touches but that's about it. The beginning and end feature some cool-looking CGI robots and apparatus but the majority of the running time just features soldiers traipsing through the woods endlessly. Hardly what I call entertainment, now.