This is one of those that has to be seen to be believed! Right off the bat, the music is an indicator of how bad the rest of the movie is going to be. Like most spy films, this one is pretty confusing. But nothing more confusing than certain things that happen in the film. Michael Caine promptly get his face surgically altered and the first thing the doctors do is give him during recovery is some vodka. Then there's an actual training montage!!! Cain knocks a policeman out simply by tripping, then he uses rocks to knock the policeman's hat off the sidewalk into the water so the cop coming down the walk doesn't get suspicious in a scene that's supposed to be suspenseful. The KGB is out to get his daughter so he warns her not to go to her place, but she sees nothing wrong letting her friend go to her place instead where she gets knocked out by carpet wielding KGB thugs and kidnapped! To add to his disguise, he needs to color his hair but all it does is restore it to Michael Caine's natural lighter hair color. Caine kills an innkeeper for wanting to call the cops on Caine's loud yelling with nothing more than a judo chop to the neck. Then somehow the spies in London know he did it immediately! And the way it looks is terrible! I watched it on Amazon and the aspect ratio is 4:3, which hadn't been done since the 40's! I can only imagine this was taken from an old 4:3 laser disc or maybe VHS as the original film was probably left to rot 35 years ago! The only way to get through this film is to appreciate how bad it is all the way through. That being said, the story isn't too bad.
Review of The Jigsaw Man
