They tried, they really did, to get on the Bond wagon, but they didn't have the money to pull it off. So the action scenes involve our hero doing things you or I could do with a mild headcold--riding a scooter at a sedate speed, jumping in the back of a van that's barely moving, and running a wire from a TV to a door. It's all they had money for, so I feel a bit bad for them. While spy movies are supposed to be goofily over-the-top (In Like Flint did it better and with humor), you have to put some money into the stunts and gadgets to reach that height of silly/amazing the genre depends on. Instead of fun, therefore, this spy film comes off as sad.
Harder to forgive than this lack of "wow" factor is the old guy hitting on the young chicks, but I know men who make movies like to think that they are completely irresistible to younger women and will be until they are 80. However, once I did the research into the actors, it seems that Adam is played by a (at filming) 38 year old man. Yeah, I know, he looks like total crap already, but that's what imdb tells me! The girls were 21 and 23. So it's not as creepy as it looks. He definitely looks 55 and they do indeed look to be in their early 20s. So he couldn't really be their grandfather--barely the younger one's father. The poor girls are often in unflattering clothes and awful 1966 hairstyles that relied on hairspray in a big way. One looked considerably better as Animal in Beach Blanket Bingo.
There's a plot. An Eastern Bloc scientist has escaped to continue his researches into bacterial sporulation (which is actually a thing, google tells me. Who knew?) Despite that he's developing a biological weapon, he's doing it in a rental house in Marina del Rey. (I once located the precise house on Google Maps, and that house had not changed in 40 years!) Seems like an odd place to have the super-secret bioweapon facility, but hey, if I knew what I was doing in this field, the CIA or USAMRIID would hire me, am I right? More things happen once spy and scientist and femme fatale meet. There are bad guys, but they don't do much until near the end. There's a showdown. The film ends.
Harder to forgive than this lack of "wow" factor is the old guy hitting on the young chicks, but I know men who make movies like to think that they are completely irresistible to younger women and will be until they are 80. However, once I did the research into the actors, it seems that Adam is played by a (at filming) 38 year old man. Yeah, I know, he looks like total crap already, but that's what imdb tells me! The girls were 21 and 23. So it's not as creepy as it looks. He definitely looks 55 and they do indeed look to be in their early 20s. So he couldn't really be their grandfather--barely the younger one's father. The poor girls are often in unflattering clothes and awful 1966 hairstyles that relied on hairspray in a big way. One looked considerably better as Animal in Beach Blanket Bingo.
There's a plot. An Eastern Bloc scientist has escaped to continue his researches into bacterial sporulation (which is actually a thing, google tells me. Who knew?) Despite that he's developing a biological weapon, he's doing it in a rental house in Marina del Rey. (I once located the precise house on Google Maps, and that house had not changed in 40 years!) Seems like an odd place to have the super-secret bioweapon facility, but hey, if I knew what I was doing in this field, the CIA or USAMRIID would hire me, am I right? More things happen once spy and scientist and femme fatale meet. There are bad guys, but they don't do much until near the end. There's a showdown. The film ends.