Review – In Like Flint

If prior to today’s viewing you’d asked me if I’d seen this movie, I would have said yes. But as I started watching, I realized that other than the first 15 minutes or so I’d actually never seen it before. I think I must’ve seen the first Flint movie several times as a teen watching the late movies but fallen asleep before completing the second half of the obvious double feature. To be sure, there’s little here to keep a kid awake. Once again superspy Derek Flint (James Coburn) – freelance operative for a spy agency called ZOWIE – is up against evil geniuses trying to take over the world. At one point the picture appears to be taking a slightly feminist slant, as the menace is supplied by women who’ve cleverly exploited the presumption that they’re second class citizens. But then the macho zeitgeist of 1967 reasserts itself. Though slightly more clever than the first one, this is still a cheap Bond parody and not much else. Mildly amusing