Review – The Reich Underground

Toward the end of World War Two, the Nazis tried to build massive underground complexes to hide their people and – more important, of course – their missile production operations from Allied bombing. Though the subject has potential, it turns out to make a perfectly wretched documentary. The whole thing is an almost endless parade of video of caves that have been abandoned for more than half a century. The footage goes from kinda interesting to kinda monotonous to totally relentless. Before the end we were envisioning what the chapter list on the DVD must look like. “Holes.” “More holes.” “Still more holes.” “And yet more holes.” “OMG how many holes are there?” “Who knew there were this many holes in the whole world?” “Archive footage of Nazis torturing a monkey and a cat.” “Holes don’t seem so bad now, do they?” “Seriously, though, how many more holes are there?” And so on. Wish I’d skipped it