I watched "In Like Flint" (cool title) not long after watching its predecessor "Our Man Flint" but was similarly underwhelmed. Yet again, just about the only reason for watching it is James Coburn's cool persona in the title role while the several reasons for not watching it include a literally hair-brained plan for women to take over the world by means of hairdressing/brainwashing appliances, Lee J Cobb hamming it up as Flint's boss and of course the decade long tradition of using scantily-clad women as eye-candy.
The stunts are nothing special, the mock-up of the orbiting space craft resembles nothing so much as a rotating thimble while fight scenes are tame in the extreme. Perhaps like the camp classic 60's T.V. Series of "Batman", the aim was the same, namely to get the audience to laugh at, as much as with the characters, with all the actors in on the joke.
I just don't think this was the best way for Hollywood to rip-off, sorry, take inspiration from the successful James Bond series, the over the top approach hardly helping the movie appeal to latter-day audiences. Coburn gets one great accidentally prescient line "An actor...as president?" and otherwise stroll through the film in cool clothes. He was wise not to make a third entry in the series.
The stunts are nothing special, the mock-up of the orbiting space craft resembles nothing so much as a rotating thimble while fight scenes are tame in the extreme. Perhaps like the camp classic 60's T.V. Series of "Batman", the aim was the same, namely to get the audience to laugh at, as much as with the characters, with all the actors in on the joke.
I just don't think this was the best way for Hollywood to rip-off, sorry, take inspiration from the successful James Bond series, the over the top approach hardly helping the movie appeal to latter-day audiences. Coburn gets one great accidentally prescient line "An actor...as president?" and otherwise stroll through the film in cool clothes. He was wise not to make a third entry in the series.