OK Connery

Spaghetti Bond film? Yes, that might be the right genre. But it is not a parody. It's more about brewing tea from a bag that's been leached a few times. It's a rather bizarre, but I can't say boring spectacle (another non-Bond film, Never Say Never Again, is definitely more boring), in which - to the sound of Morriccone and Nicolai's impeccable rip-off of John Barry - something is almost constantly happening. And the story? A naive mishmash of the most basic Bond clichés, which was already pretty hackneyed by the time it was made, populated by quanta of beautiful women and starring Neil Connery, whose character is called Dr. Neil Connery and wears a beard like Vlasta Burian in Three Boiled Eggs. As the ending approaches, OK Connery gets weirder and weirder (for example, disguising a stolen truck as some kind of mobile cat shanty is perhaps an unused idea from the same old Casino Royale), every now and then someone comes up with an allusion to Connery's brother or a line like "You've read too many of Fleming's novels", and the conclusion with the battle of archers and spearmen lacks only that the hero, who alternately beats, shoots and hypnotizes the villains, should have his famous brother rush to the rescue. If that had happened, I might have given it one more star. (02/08/2015)