WARNING - CONTAINS A FEW SPOILERS!
The movie's story of a computer expert working under contract for NATO in Italy seeking revenge for the murder of his family by terrorists had a lot of potential to work. Especially the somewhat topical and ahead-of-its-time storyline of the villians being Palestinians attacking American military families living in Europe. The cinematography is great, I loved seeing the location shots of Rome and Naples as well. However, largely due to some slow pacing in places, a downbeat tone, the worst musical score Ennio Morricone has ever written(and very repetitive and maudlin at that), some laughable dialogue and an equally laughable climax, this Euro-pudding, filmed in Italy and Pinewood Studios in the UK, almost falls flat but does manage to hold the viewer's attention. George Kennedy unfortunately overacts and contorts his face like a demented fish in places as John Kinsdale, the aforementioned computer expert turned vigilante. The two best performers by far are Raf Vallone(EL CID), as a police inspector, and Sir John Mills(RYAN'S DAUGHTER) as Mike MacAllister, Kinsdale's fellow computer expert who tries to help him by doing some early form of hacking! Rita Tushingham is also present as Janice, a NATO employee who tries to stop Kinsdale's DEATH WISH style revenge ramage. The final shootout in a supermarket, complete with the worst anti-terror ops in movie history, manages to be bloody but entertaining and unintentionally hilarious. Check out the little boy's awestruck face as his hostage mum kills a terrorist, like he's saying WOOOWW! Talk about poor taste. Watch terrorists miss with stunning inaccurate shooting - they attack the tomato soup display and toilet rolls. Those of you that love to laugh at outdated computer 'technology' will also have a whale of a time.
Sample dialogue: (JOHN MILLS): He's found his killers. He doesn't want them in jail. And neither machine nor I can prove just how successful he's going to be!
What a potentially good but silly movie. But somehow this does work and entertain in many ways, and if you bad movie freaks out there want one to rip into for part of a bad movie fest, then this may be for you.
WARNING - CONTAINS A FEW SPOILERS! The movie's story of a computer expert working under contract for NATO in Italy seeking revenge for the murder of his family by terrorists had a lot of potential to work. Especially the somewhat topical and ahead-of-its-time storyline of the villians being Palestinians attacking American military families living in Europe. The cinematography is great, I loved seeing the location shots of Rome and Naples as well. However, largely due to some slow pacing in places, a downbeat tone, the worst musical score Ennio Morricone has ever written(and very repetitive and maudlin at that), some laughable dialogue and an equally laughable climax, this Euro-pudding, filmed in Italy and Pinewood Studios in the UK, almost falls flat but does manage to hold the viewer's attention. George Kennedy unfortunately overacts and contorts his face like a demented fish in places as John Kinsdale, the aforementioned computer expert turned vigilante. The two best performers by far are Raf Vallone(EL CID), as a police inspector, and Sir John Mills(RYAN'S DAUGHTER) as Mike MacAllister, Kinsdale's fellow computer expert who tries to help him by doing some early form of hacking! Rita Tushingham is also present as Janice, a NATO employee who tries to stop Kinsdale's DEATH WISH style revenge ramage. The final shootout in a supermarket, complete with the worst anti-terror ops in movie history, manages to be bloody but entertaining and unintentionally hilarious. Check out the little boy's awestruck face as his hostage mum kills a terrorist, like he's saying WOOOWW! Talk about poor taste. Watch terrorists miss with stunning inaccurate shooting - they attack the tomato soup display and toilet rolls. Those of you that love to laugh at outdated computer 'technology' will also have a whale of a time. Sample dialogue: (JOHN MILLS): He's found his killers. He doesn't want them in jail. And neither machine nor I can prove just how successful he's going to be! What a potentially good but silly movie. But somehow this does work and entertain in many ways, and if you bad movie freaks out there want one to rip into for part of a bad movie fest, then this may be for you.