Review of Rebus

This film begins unpromisingly right from the first scene, where we see members of the "international casino syndicate" playing golf and talking to each other, and their English dubbing is so poor and exaggerated that it sticks out like a sore thumb. Unfortunately, these dubbing problems continue throughout the movie - even when the characters actually speak English! Another problem is that the story (about a gang who rips off casinos around the world and has now set its sights on Beirut's) is mostly uninteresting, though the identity of the "big boss" admittedly caught me by surprise (which really shouldn't have, if I had remembered Roger Ebert's Law Of Unnecessary Characters in thrillers). Laurence Harvey does not show enough star power here to carry the entire film by himself, and although Ann-Margret looks very beautiful and sings two songs, she is generally wasted. *1/2 out of 4.