In the age of Our Man Flint, Matt Helm (Dean Martin), 007 (Sean Connery, Roger Moore, etc.),. With all the stereotypes, with some of them spoofing them, like Flint and Helm, they were all very impressionable on a young male. Other versions of the same genre influenced friends' children.
I have always liked Coburn, McQueen. Connery, Lee Marvin, Bronson, Brosnan, Clint Eastwood., Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Denzel Washington, etc.
Coburn, a student of Bruce Lee, was his typical self in this movie. He was a highly proficient martial artist. This really was not important in this movie, but his personal attributes played a part in the movie. Although he is cocky in this movie (he is supposed to be), he doesn't boast seriously, although he could. He was a modest actor, and I enjoyed his movies. RIP.
Obviously, this is a spoof on the "real" spies, like 007, which were much more serious, but had that light-hearted touch of Connery, increased by Brosnan ... forget Craig.
"Purple Alert :-) . Flint always out-trumping this boss, knowing the exact number of seconds for a poison (not knowing which poison it was, its quantity, the victim's weight/metabolism) to kill the person . Hysterical. Add in the production inaccuracies (in the bar in Marseille, Flint uses his SILENCED pistol to scare off the patrons), it is an entertaining movie. The theatrical fencing scene was typical ... My fencing instructor in the first 10 minutes of the first lesson explained to us that fencing is not what you see in the movies; it is quick and deadly within seconds; no dramatic sweeping of the arm ... which would be followed by a killing plunge to the chest.
Of course Flint rescues all the scantily clad women. Flint did it in bulk, 007 only rescued one of two.
The movie, I hope, is intended to be a spoof.
Worth watching more than once.
I have always liked Coburn, McQueen. Connery, Lee Marvin, Bronson, Brosnan, Clint Eastwood., Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Denzel Washington, etc.
Coburn, a student of Bruce Lee, was his typical self in this movie. He was a highly proficient martial artist. This really was not important in this movie, but his personal attributes played a part in the movie. Although he is cocky in this movie (he is supposed to be), he doesn't boast seriously, although he could. He was a modest actor, and I enjoyed his movies. RIP.
Obviously, this is a spoof on the "real" spies, like 007, which were much more serious, but had that light-hearted touch of Connery, increased by Brosnan ... forget Craig.
"Purple Alert :-) . Flint always out-trumping this boss, knowing the exact number of seconds for a poison (not knowing which poison it was, its quantity, the victim's weight/metabolism) to kill the person . Hysterical. Add in the production inaccuracies (in the bar in Marseille, Flint uses his SILENCED pistol to scare off the patrons), it is an entertaining movie. The theatrical fencing scene was typical ... My fencing instructor in the first 10 minutes of the first lesson explained to us that fencing is not what you see in the movies; it is quick and deadly within seconds; no dramatic sweeping of the arm ... which would be followed by a killing plunge to the chest.
Of course Flint rescues all the scantily clad women. Flint did it in bulk, 007 only rescued one of two.
The movie, I hope, is intended to be a spoof.
Worth watching more than once.