646f9e108c Super-spy Flint takes on a cabal of women plotting to rule the world. Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed three minutes while golfing with the president. Flint finds that the president has been replaced by an actor (Flint&#39;s line [with a wistful look] is &quot;An ActorPresident?&quot;) Flint finds that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own. Parts Queen of Outer Space and Deadlier Than the Male, this sluggish and shoddy film reaches it&#39;s peak in pre title titillation thanks to the opening montage and titles credited to Richard Kuhn and National Screen Service. That and Jerry Goldsmith&#39;s fetching score are the only pluses here. Jean Hale who made an impression opposite Stephen Boyd in The Oscar is given nothing of interest to say or do andan adversary to Coburn&#39;s Flint she&#39;s like a firm, but polite flight attendant. Lee J. Cobb is featuredmuchCoburn&#39;s Flint who&#39;s busy with dolphins and the ballet. Coburn is not traditionally handsome and isn&#39;t believablesomeone women would findirresistiblethe dialog often alludes to. And for a spoof the film is silly rather than amusing or witty. It&#39;s easy to see why this film ended the series. The inane plot could be funny like Revenge of the Stepford Wives, but Gordon Douglas&#39; direction and the special effects are on a par with TV&#39;s Gilligan&#39;s Island and Lost in Space respectively, and the ultimate effect is flat and dull and the same could be said for most of the cast including James Coburn whom I&#39;ve liked before and since this film. There&#39;s no conflict or tension, sexual or otherwise in this dull, camp misfire. Roger Ebert gave this turkey 1 and a 1/2 stars out of 4; chalk it up to generosity. I don&#39;t remember how the hell this movie fell on my hands. What I DO remember though is that I didn&#39;t know anything about it so I wasn&#39;t sure what to expect, although the cover made it quite clear that this would be a 007-like film set in the 60&#39;s. So I start watching it and see a LOT of girls doing various stuff, in what seems to be a beauty parlor. But is it? Some older women that look like the head-honcho-err- ets, are observing a missile launch and talking about how things are going according to plan although nothing has been actually said that could give you even a hint about the plot and that is something that I hate in movies, because there is a big difference between throwing in a couple of stuff to make people interested and anxious to understand what&#39;s going on and simply not giving anything at all! But, OK, not all movies have Hitchcock-like intro&#39;s so I forget this &quot;little&quot; mistake and carry on with watching the film since I am sure that things will start becoming betterwe move on right?<br/><br/>After a couple of scenes, we get to meet our protagonist, the spy-man himself, Flint. And THAT&#39;S when I started thinking that this movie was actually a parody of the genre. The reason was the existence of some scenes that weren&#39;t exactly funny… but silly. Was the silliness intentional or accidental? Was it a more lighthearted Bond-clone or a satire\parody of Bond films? I honestly couldn&#39;t tell! I&#39;m not being ironic or anything I&#39;m dead serious I just couldn&#39;t tell! Also,the movie progressed my initial complain about it would become my main one. The movie simply has no plot. It&#39;s scene after scene of stuff that don&#39;t create any interest to the viewer. It&#39;s only in the very end that EVERYTHING concerning the plot will be hand-fed to you in such a way that it will instantly make the rest of if the film nothing more than an exceedingly long intro. Due to this, my belief that this was actually a comedy became even stronger and my curiosity won, since I did a small search on the Net to find out that indeed it was!<br/><br/>But that is actually the second problem of the movie, something that also servesits tombstone. Most parts of the movie were so unbelievably &quot;dry&quot; that I couldn&#39;t even realize that they were SUPPOSED to be funny. With what should I laugh here? With the lamest action scenes in the world? With Flint&#39;s hypnotizing effect on women? With the downright stupid &quot;rule the world&quot; plan of the women in the intro? Honestly, I don&#39;t know!!! I know that humor has to do with personal tastes and all, but if you can&#39;t even tell that a movie is a comedy then this movie has a serious problem… Not everyone likes the smart British humor of the Monty Pythons, or the slapstick humor of the Three Stooges, but it&#39;s not hard to realize that both of these are actual comedies! In Like Flint is a boring and plot-less spy film and a worthless attempt at a funny movie. I wonder why Austin Powers likes it so much <br/><br/>FINAL VERDICT: Can&#39;t even tell if this was supposed to be funny (3/10)<br/><br/>Also Check: Austin Powers (1997) – Our Man Flint (1966) – Top Secret (1984)
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