The second Matt Helm movie is marginally better than the second, mostly because it has a more confident air and stronger support cast: Karl Malden is fun as the head villain and Ann Margret an ideal "girl in a spy flick" - bright, tough, sexy, confident. Both of them are better than the material.
Dino staggers his way through the film, humming his old tunes, wearing garish clothes, having a fine old time. Really movies like this are beyond criticism - you wish they had a bit more tension and didn't look so cheap.
There are some funny bits like a gun which shoots the person who fires it - though even this is overused - and attractive females like Camilla Sparv and Beverley Adams. I feel James Gregory wastes the role of Helms' boss- this could have been something special.
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