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hugh1971 2012-05-23 02:39:09

A must for fans of Moore and MacDowall

I've always been interested in Roger Moore's post-Bond twilight years. Ispotted this film gathering dust in a video shop while on holiday inCopenhagen and hired it. It's excellent! Moore is on top form and veryfunny. He was 67 when this was made but plays a 48 year old - those who sayhe was too old to play Bond, take note!).The plot concerns a mystery writer turned journalist, Thomas Grace (Moore)who is approached by psychic Jessie Gallardo (Nancy Allen from Robocop) whoclaims that a master criminal, Bernard Drake (MacDowall) is going aroundmurdering people in a style based on Grace's books. After initialscepticism, Moore pits his wits against MacDowall's criminal genius.There are some interesting fantasy sequences where Moore imagines himselfasthe heroes of his own mystery books. Shame about his attempt at a northernaccent though! My one criticism would be the low budget, shaky tv-movieproduction values and some rather offbeat comic-book style scenes. It'sexciting stuff, but probably won't appeal to those who aren't fans of Mooreor MacDowall.

joe dredd 2012-05-22 10:52:02

Great fun.

I Caught this film late night on BBC2 one Friday and I was pleasantlysurprised. Roger Moore is one of my favourite actors but even I have toadmit he doesn't have the most glowing CV. This was really good though.There are great performances from Rog and McDowell.The director skillfully mixes comedy and suspense never overbalancingthe film with too much of one or the other. I think it would have beengood if the film had of had a slightly larger budget to up theproduction quality a little, I think then it could have been releasedtheatrically and comfortably made its money back.I wish Roger were in Moore (good one eh?! erm yeah...) movies but Iguess he doesn't have so much time with all his charity work and beingon TV etc. No matter, its always a pleasure to see him in a qualityfilm or show.