One of the more frustrating ITC mid-Atlantic adventure tales, mostly because the ingredients are there but it doesn't gel. It's an adventure heist tale about emeralds set in Colombia and shot in Mexico - the Mexico locations are gorgeous and Anne Archer was never more beautiful or fun as the rich woman investigating her sister's death. Omar Sharif is a reliable baddie and Ryan O'Neal is charming.
What went wrong? The story fails to get momentum - it keeps stopping for chats and seems reluctant to turn up the head on its heroes. It could never get a fix on the characterisatinos of the leads (apart from her being uptown) and the status of their relationship. They don't use the villains enough - the guy who killed the sister is killed very quickly
O'Neal takes his shirt off an almost absurd amount of times. The credits are by Bond titles guy Maurice Binder and feel Bond like. Bill Wyman wrote the score.
It's such a shame - this didn't need to be bad.
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