....on whether you're a fan of caper movies or not. If you are, you'll probably appreciate the scale, the careful planning, the techno gimmicks and the clockwork efficiency of the caper operation presented here. If you are not, you'll probably grow impatient with all the long, drawn-out sequences of the operation-in-progress, and the lack of any depth. The one sequence that SHOULD have been more drawn-out (Ingrid Schoeller's striptease!) is unfortunately pretty short. However, there are two very amusing scenes: one is a collage of the different reactions of news agencies around the world to the robbery, and the other is Fernando Sancho's impersonation of a Russian General. Good Russian-flavored music score too. ** out of 4.
5 Reviews
INGRID SCHOELLER IS THE BEST PART OF THIS MOVIE
larryanderson12 February 2022
I just watched this during the shut down and found Ingrid Schoeller the most intriguing of the entire cast. All the other cast members are far too familiar to be the slightest bit interesting. Just the same old tried and true caper movie. Slightly entertaining but little else.
Preposterous heist flick
Leofwine_draca10 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
An amusing heist movie from Spain, featuring Fernando Sancho leading a team of crack thieves to break into a top-secret vault in Moscow, no less, to retrieve that perennial '60s favourite, the stash of diamonds. This grainy, low budget and murky production feels like it's all over the place at times, but gradually settles into the comic adventure mould. The heist itself takes up a lot of the running time and it's fairly imaginative, and the producers add in a gratuitous striptease scene for good measure.
enjoyable Spanish spoof of international "caper" films
django-18 September 2002
This Spanish film (I'm reviewing the English-dubbed version, MISSION PHANTOM) is a enjoyable spoof of the many international "caper" films of the 1960s, where a ragtag band of colorful characters from different countries and backgrounds are brought together to pull of some "impossible" heist in a well-guarded place with amazing security. It is played for laughs, yet at the same time IS an intriguing heist pulled off in a creative way. The cast includes Fernando Sancho and Eduardo Fajardo--two men best known in the US for VERY different kinds of roles in European westerns (Sancho usually as a colorful Mexican bandido, Fajardo usually as a sadistic town boss or gang leader). No classic, but an enjoyable way to kill 90 minutes on a rainy day.
b movie, jewel heist in soviet union
deu2ronomy26 February 2005
the dubbing is atrocious! the acting is appalling! this is a genuinely bad movie, and i enjoyed every minute. the 'x-ray' scene is out of this world. also, it is no surprise that two of the actors in this film also have worked in (bad) westerns. very impressive.
while nearly every aspect of this cinematic oeuvre is too far-fetched to be in any way plausible, it is somehow rather endearing. the soundtrack is replete with spy tunes including a swingy, reappearing Russian folk melody reminiscent of 'meadowlands,' and a smattering of snazzy bossa nova numbers.
check out the killer costumes.
it's true that there are characters who speak no lines, and the female characters are as shallow and one-dimensional as the male characters.
while nearly every aspect of this cinematic oeuvre is too far-fetched to be in any way plausible, it is somehow rather endearing. the soundtrack is replete with spy tunes including a swingy, reappearing Russian folk melody reminiscent of 'meadowlands,' and a smattering of snazzy bossa nova numbers.
check out the killer costumes.
it's true that there are characters who speak no lines, and the female characters are as shallow and one-dimensional as the male characters.
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