In 1945 the Nazis went to the Moon, in 2018 they’re coming
back. The film with possibly the best tagline of 2012 turns out to be pretty
much what I expected, a nice idea which is overstretched, a film which can’t
sustain itself for a full 90 minutes and unfortunately a film that isn’t enough
fun. In planning and development for around six years, the trailer was first
taken to Cannes
in 2008 in order to drum up finance and that’s when I first heard about it.
After four years of excitement the end product is a little bit of a let down
but I have to commend the Finnish film makers for their tenacity and drive.
The plot can be pretty much explained by the tagline but
there is a little more to it. The Nazis have been living on the dark side of
the Moon since 1945 and are preparing an invasion. When America’s Sarah
Palin-esque President (Stephanie Paul) sends a mission to the Moon in order to win
an election, the astronauts come across the Nazi Moon base and one of them
(Christopher Kirby) is taken in and interrogated. Earthologist (Julia Dietze)
takes an interest in the Earth man but her fiancé and future Fuhrer (Gotz Otto)
has plans for world domination and leads a small expeditionary force to Earth
ahead of the main attack.
