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 "The Keep" starts off interesting enough with a platoon of German soldiers (Jurgen Prochnow plays their leader) exploring a weird Romanian temple, but once they disturb the resident monster, the movie goes downhill. Once the monster wakes up, the movie suddens cuts to some place far away with Scott Glenn getting out of bed and setting out to sea. Later on, they show why he does that, but for a while, his presence seems utterly extraneous. Meanwhile, a bunch of Nazis led by Gabriel Byrne's character storm into the temple and take over operations, and the movie attempts to build drama from tensions between the two German commanders but it falls rather flat. It also tries to build drama by having the Nazis harassing a couple of Jewish scholars who have been hired to translate some inscriptions inside the temple, but it doesn't come anywhere close to what you'd see in "Schindler's List". Eventually the monster starts slaughtering people left and right, but the bulk of its victims are Nazis, which makes it difficult to care about its killing spree. The bottom line: If you're looking for a good horror movie and you come across "The Keep", then you probably should keep looking. |
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