Who here has seen this movie? I've watched it about 5 times, and I never get tired of it. I think it's an excellent and thought-provoking film with a big warning regarding some potential dangers of cloning and genetic engineering. When the movie came out in 1978, as far as we know, no living thing had yet been cloned, although the necessary science and technology was nearly in place, as the movie also dramatically shows. In 1996, Dolly the sheep became the first cloned mammal, and supposedly a few years ago, a couple of kids were cloned or at least genetically engineered in China, though this isn't definitely known. In any case, I'd say the technology already exists for human cloning and genetic engineering, so what should we do about it, and how do we avoid a madman like Dr. Mengele, who in The Boys from Brazil was able to clone 94 copies of Adolf Hitler?
Besides the obvious ethical concerns this movie presents, I'd say the story and acting were quite excellent, especially Gregory Peck, who played the horribly evil and frightening Doctor of Death, Dr. Mengele, as well as Lawrence Olivier, who did an excellent job as Lieberman, an old Jewish spy who uncovers Dr. Mengele's evil plot and is able to stop him before he has a chance to create the Fourth Reich!
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