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Our Man Flint (1966)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 6/14

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6/14: Our Man Flint is a gross picture that shamelessly rips off the formula for James Bond pictures.

Somehow, I think the famed franchise should've had it patented back then to prevent copycats. Well, Our Man Flint is like watching a James Bond picture all over again only it's tackier, stupider, and more pointless. The oddest part is it's meant to be a parody only that there are no laughs coming from me.

James Coburn as Derek Flint is obnoxious, annoying, unlikable, and full of conceit. As a matter of fact, I don't think he should've had a leading role in any movie because he's at best a supporting actor and a bad one at that. Similar to all James Bond pictures, there's blatant sexism going on in Our Man Flint that I find to be insulting. Obviously, women are nothing more than sex objects. And Derek Flint is the biggest practitioner of polygamy I've seen in movies. Is he trying to build his own personal harem?

Remember when Derek Flint ran into the middle of the smoky club and proceeded to shoot his gun in the air. Why does it make a sound when it's equipped with a silencer? Later, Derek is trapped inside of a combination safe, yet he can breathe and there's a light bulb inside? Similarly, at the end, five women are placed in separate snare drums and they can still breathe inside? How do the military personnel know there are people in them?

After Derek and the five women are rescued from the island, what happened to the rest of the women? I guess they were villains after all? If Derek requires a specific suit which contains a cigarette lighter to induce a deus ex machina and he doesn't have it on anymore after being on the island, then the lighter trick can't performed anymore, correct? The huge boulder rock that fell atop a woman's head has zero effect on her. I didn't know that women took showers with their bikinis on.

What's Lee J. Cobb doing in this? How did he go from being an important actor in On the Waterfront and 12 Angry Men to a rubbish throwaway caricature in twelve years' time? The guy who plays the semi arch-villain looks like Michael Caine's older brother. By the way, the movie poster looks silly as it's out of proportion, especially James Coburn's legs and the female's breasts on the left of him.

All in all, Our Man Flint is a boring, dated, and pretentious spy "spoof."