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04 Jun, 2013
Utter rubbish - Amateur performances and even worse direction - AVOID!
I bought this DVD having recently enjoyed Alain Delon in "Le Samourai and "Le Cercle Rouge".
OK, firstly, those films were both directed by Jean Pierre Melville and were completely French movies, location and language-wise.
"Scorpio" was directed by Michael Winner (uh-oh..) and filmed in America, Austria and France. Winner was never a great director this film is honestly a shoddy mess.
The sound recording is abysmal (it sounds as though it was recorded on a cheap cassette deck - which it maybe was), as is the continuity (after a reversing car crash destroys the rear of a car, it is undamaged as it drives away!) and the plot is confusing at best and downright silly at it's worst!
The script is laughably bad (You're beautiful Jean, but sometimes you have the bad breath of Priests!?)
and the acting - well, it has been said that Winner never knew how to get good performances from his actors - this proves it.
Delon looks ultracool but merely speaks his lines, and Lancaster - well past his awesome prime by now - just phones in his performance.
I expected a really good 1970's spy thriller, along the lines of "Three Days Of The Condor" but this was awful.
All in all, I'd avoid it and get something like the above mentioned "Condor" which is truly believable and has good acting throughout (the sheer paranoia displayed by Robert Redford in that movie seems totally real).
02 Dec, 2022
Only two modes but they are the two I want
Really good little torch. I now have 2 of them and keep 1 in the car.
24 Mar, 2023
I recommend it to any lover of older (pre 1980s) thriller films
This is a really good book focussing on various thriller genre films from the 1930s through to the 1970s, including "M", "Dr. Strangelove", "A Clockwork Orange", "Shamus", "The Heist" and a lot more.
Mr Hammond really digs deep given his available space to get in between the nooks and crannies of the directors minds and to show how each movie influenced others that came later.
I recommend it to any lover of older (pre 1980s) thriller films.