Started off pretty haphazardly; save for Steve Guttenberg's death. Then the movie gradually evolves into all kinds of awesomeness. The entire third act is practically flawless and Larry Olivier has got some range indeed.

Schaffner is not the right director for this material. What could've worked as a trashy thriller stinks of self-importance and respectable actors like Peck and Olivier overdo their performances in a way that has a certain degree of camp-value - but the whole film grates under the feeling that everybody strives for greatness when they should've kept it fun. It is moderately entertaining, though. And the premise is engrossing.

Classic. Watch this just to see Steve Guttenberg killed. Worth the price of admission alone.

"Now, if only Uta Hagen and Rosemary Harris were rolling on the floor next to them, Boys From Brazil would have been an bigger scream." - Ed Gonzalez

Schaffner screwed this one up. Ira Levin's text is just silly, the cast is a disaster (Olivier and Peck are hammy and play inflated stereotypes, and Steve Guttenberg is particularly awful), dead bodies visibly blink, Jerry Goldsmith's score is literally pathetic and over-anxious at the most leisurely moments, even the photography and makeup are bad. Still, for all its faults the movie achieves a cartoonish quality that lends it at least some entertainment value.

The Boys From Brazil wastes a lot of what it has going for it in terms of plot originality by pairing it with a mediocre script that produces very little in the way of emotional attachment. By the end of the film, it's hard to care whether or not the Nazis win, as long as it all ends soon.

Overall its a decent thriller. Goldsmith's score is excellent and its beautifully shot. Though it seems like the director didn't even try to reign in his actors. Olivier is the worst offender; he was down right grating at times.

Great film.

Something about this movie just doesn't allows me to be completely pleased with it but it's a "classic".