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I was meaning to get an early night but when this came on, late last night on TCM I found I had to sit through it to the end. A jumble of different styles made this a little disconcerting but it stands alone purely as an actioner without reference to the sci-fi bits.
George Hamilton gets beaten up, pushed out of a jeep, bombed by the USAF, trapped on an out-of-control carousel, crashes his car off a bridge, climbs down an elevator shaft and has various fights, both physical and mental but comes through in the end, with hardly a hair out of place.
My only two criticisms are that 1.) there is a huge plot hole involving the identity of the villain, played by Michael Rennie (how come Henry Hallson didn't recognise him as "Adam Hart" when Rennie attended the meeting early in the film and 2.) whatever colour process was used here, it's disgustingly lurid and inappropriate for a thriller.
I was meaning to get an early night but when this came on, late last night on TCM I found I had to sit through it to the end. A jumble of different styles made this a little disconcerting but it stands alone purely as an actioner without reference to the sci-fi bits.
George Hamilton gets beaten up, pushed out of a jeep, bombed by the USAF, trapped on an out-of-control carousel, crashes his car off a bridge, climbs down an elevator shaft and has various fights, both physical and mental but comes through in the end, with hardly a hair out of place.
My only two criticisms are that 1.) there is a huge plot hole involving the identity of the villain, played by Michael Rennie (how come Henry Hallson didn't recognise him as "Adam Hart" when Rennie attended the meeting early in the film and 2.) whatever colour process was used here, it's disgustingly lurid and inappropriate for a thriller.