In 1966, three spies (two males, one female) were sent undercover into East
Berlin to hunt down and kidnap an infamous Nazi war criminal. Naturally, being
young and sexy the three spies cannot resist their primal urges to knock boots.
This lack of discipline ends up screwing up their entire mission, so they do the
next best thing and just lie about it. Hell, I could do that! Did I ever tell
you about how back when I was a spy in Vietnam I accidentally found Hitler alive
and teaching sign language at a school for limbless blind children? Just to be
safe, I C4'ed the school and the entire village surrounding it then time-traveled to 7955 and moved to Io where I now "time-blog" back to the early 2000's. True
story. Anyway, back to the movie: in 1997 word comes out that the Nazi dude is still alive so Helen
Mirren (the older version of the 1966 spy) has to locate and kill him in order
to pay her "debt".
Ehh, interesting story, but the jumping from 1966 to 1997 back and forth nonstop
was uncalled for and irritating. I would rather just see the story from
beginning to end. I think all of the jumping stuff was just the filmmakers
trying to cover up the fact there was only like 45 minutes worth of actual story
in this 113 minute movie. Another thing that confused my simple little brain was
the two guys back in 1966, I had a hard time figuring out which was which. They
looked a lot a like and neither resembled their 1997 versions. I finally figured
it out, but even then it was still distracting. Of the three, I guess, the
female was suppose to be the character the viewer sympathized with, but she came
off almost like an emotionless robot.
Oh well, OK film with an interesting story, just badly executed. I would like to
see what somebody else could do with the same story. Worth watching, but don't
expect anything life changing or really anything you'll even remember in three
months time. As for me, I will
never watch it ever again. I have much better things to do in good ol' 7955. Like watch BACK TO THE FUTURE!