Monday, March 27, 2006

In Like Flint: The Flint get Flintier

James Coburn=best ever. This sequal isn't quite a tight and slick as the first film, but it's pretty damn good. I'm surprised they didn't keep going to a number three.

Pretty much every scene is an action scene, in that small-scale, agile, 60's fight-scene sort of way (Star Trek was in full swing at the same time). I think the word they use is "romp". Not quite as spoofy as the first one, because the writer seemed to know to trust the franchize's own legs, and so less ahead of it's time, to be sure, but in general, Flint appeals much more to me as an icon of the over-the-top spy thing than any Bond, so it works.

Now if they had done a Kirk/Flint buddy comedy...

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